linux man page for whoami

WHOAMI(1)							   User Commands							 WHOAMI(1)

NAME
       whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS
       whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
       Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID.  Same as id -un.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The  full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'whoami invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							 WHOAMI(1)