WHOAMI(1L) WHOAMI(1L) NNAAMMEE whoami - print effective userid SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS wwhhooaammii [[----hheellpp]] [[----vveerrssiioonn]] DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN This manual page documents the GNU version of wwhhooaammii. wwhhooaammii prints the user name associated with the current effective user ID. It is equivalent to the command `id -un'. OOPPTTIIOONNSS _-_-_h_e_l_p Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully. _-_-_v_e_r_s_i_o_n Print version information on standard output then exit successfully. FSF GNU Shell Utilities 1 .