whoami — Display your effective user name
Format
whoami
Description
whoami displays a user name associated with the effective user ID. To display your login name, use who am i.
For example, if you login
as user1, then use the su command
to change to user2:
- Command
- Returned
- who am I
- user1
- whoami
- user2
Exit values
- 0
- Successful completion
- 1
- Incorrect command line argument
- 2
- Error getting effective username; displays effective UID
Related information
who, id