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WHOAMI(1)                  OpenBSD Reference 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 equiv-
     alent to ``id -un''. The command ``id -p'' is suggested for normal inter-
     active use.

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

     The whoami utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.

SEE ALSO
     id(1)

OpenBSD 2.6                      June 6, 1993                                1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.

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