LOGNAME(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, so logname — it prints your login name. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic minimalism ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

logname [OPTION]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It prints the user's login name. literally just that. no notes, no drama, just your name handed right back to you 💅

• --help — shows you the help text and dips out. that's the whole thing 🎀
• --version — spits out version info and peaces out ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by David MacKenzie. we stan a legend 🫶

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found something cursed? tell the coreutils girlies:

• bug reports go to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
• GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
• general help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
• translation bugs (yes, those are a thing, and they go to a whole different place) → <https://translationproject.org/team/>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• getlogin(3) — its cousin, iykyk

Full documentation is at <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/logname>, or if you're the "no internet, only local vibes" type, it's available locally via:

info '(coreutils) logname invocation'

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🫶 this one's packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2), and the legal tea is: Copyright © 2026 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. (fr fr, no warranty at all — read that part again 💀)

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k bye bestie, this was GNU coreutils 9.10, dropped August 2026, and the whole thing is filed under LOGNAME(1). go print your name, you main character 🎀💖