osf1 man page for whoami

Query: whoami

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whoami(1)						      General Commands Manual							 whoami(1)

NAME
whoami - Displays the user's name
SYNOPSIS
whoami
DESCRIPTION
The whoami command displays the username associated with your current ID. Unlike who am i, this command tells you what your effective user ID is, and not who is logged on to your tty (it does not use /var/adm/utmp). If the current user ID is not in the password file, the message Intruder alert is displayed.
FILES
Contains usernames and IDs.
SEE ALSO
Commands: who(1) whoami(1)
Related Man Pages
com_err(3) - redhat
id(1) - osx
whoami(1b) - sunos
whoami(1) - opensolaris
com_err(3) - freebsd
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