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WHOAMI 1B "Sep 14, 1992"
NAME
whoami - display the effective current username
SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/whoami
DESCRIPTION

whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID. If you have used su to temporarily adopt another user, whoami will report the login name associated with that user ID. whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid and getpwnam(3C), respectively).

FILES
/etc/passwd

username data base

SEE ALSO

who (1), getuid (2), getpwnam (3C), attributes (7), su (8)