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WHOAMI(1)                   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
     equivalent to "id -un".  The command "id -p" is suggested for normal
     interactive use.

     The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name.

EXIT STATUS
     The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
     id(1)

NetBSD 10.99                     June 6, 1993                     NetBSD 10.99