WHOAMI(1)               COMMAND REFERENCE               WHOAMI(1)



NAME
     whoami - print effective current user ID

SYNOPSIS
     whoami

DESCRIPTION
     Whoami prints the effective user ID which is running the
     current process.  This is different from who am i, which
     prints the name of the person logged in on the tty.

EXAMPLES
     The following shell script fragment prevents the user ID
     root from executing the command:


          #!/bin/sh
          if test 'root' = "`whoami`"
          then
               echo "This shell script may not be run by 'root'."
               exit 1
          fi
          ...


FILES
     /etc/passwd              Name data base.

RETURN VALUE
     [NO_ERRS]      Command completed without error.

     [NP_ERR]       An error occurred that was not a system
                    error.  Execution terminated.

CAVEATS
     The user ID returned corresponds to who you are at that
     point in time.  So if you have used su to substitute another
     username,  that name is returned.

SEE ALSO
     who(1n), su(1).














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na:72,76;
sy:148,106;
de:254,350;
ex:604,357;
fi:961,101;
rv:1062,244;
ca:1306,229;
se:1535,99;
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