WHOAMI(1) MachTen Reference Manual WHOAMI(1)

NAME
whoami - display effective user id

SYNOPSIS
whoami

DESCRIPTION
The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equiv-
alent to ‘‘id -un’’. The command ‘‘id -p’’ is suggested for normal inter-
active use.

The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name.

The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
id(1)

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