The whoami command¶

The whoami command displays the username of the current effective user. In other words it just prints the username of the currently logged-in user when executed.

To display your effective user id just type whoami in your terminal:

``` manish@godsmack:~$ whoami

Output:¶

manish ```

Syntax:

whoami [-OPTION]

There are only two options which can be passed to it :

--help: Used to display the help and exit

Example:

whoami --help

Output:

``` Usage: whoami [OPTION]… 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

```

--version: Output version information and exit

Example:

whoami --version

Output:

``` whoami (GNU coreutils) 8.32 Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://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.

Written by Richard Mlynarik. ```