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whoami(1B)
display the effective current username
From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.
Also by this name: whoami(1), General commands
NAME
whoami - display the effective current username
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/whoami
DESCRIPTION
whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID. If you have used su to temporarily adopt another user, whoami will report the login name associated with that user ID. whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid and getpwent, respectively).
FILES
/etc/passwd username data base
SEE ALSO
su(1), who(1) in the User's Reference Manual. getuid(2), getpwent(3) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.