WHOAMI(1)               System General Commands 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
     interactive 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)

3rd Berkeley Distribution        June 6, 1993        3rd Berkeley Distribution