whoami

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 © 2013 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.