Name

whoami — coreutils

Synopsis

/usr/bin stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version

The whoami command prints the name of the current, effective user. This may differ from your login name (the output of logname) if you’ve used the su command. This example distinguishes whoami from logname:

$ logname
smith
$ whoami
smith

$ su
Password: ********
# logname
smith
# whoami
root

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