NAME

whoami − display effective current username

SYNOPSIS

whoami

DESCRIPTION

Whoami displays the username of whoever is currently logged in.  Whoami works even if you are logged in as the super-user, while ‘who am i’ does not since it gets its information from the  /etc/utmp file. 

FILES

/etc/passwdusername data base

SEE ALSO

who(1)

Sun System Release 1.0  —  27 April 1983