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whoami: print effective userid

NAME
       whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS
       whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
       Print  the  user  name  associated  with the current effective user ID.
       Same as id -un.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report whoami bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <//www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <//www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report whoami translation bugs to <//translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+:  GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <//gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as  a  Texinfo  manual.
       If  the  info  and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

              info coreutils 'whoami invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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