WHOAMI(1)

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version 9.10 · 5 versions
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💖 WHOAMI(1) 💖

okay bestie so the manual name here is whoami, section 1, filed under User Commands ✨ and hiii welcome to the shortest slay of your life.

🌸 NAME 🌸

whoami — print effective user name 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

whoami [OPTION]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like. It prints the user name that goes with your current effective user ID. That's it. That's the whole job. 💅

Lowkey it's exactly the same thing as running id -un — no cap, same vibe, same output.

  • --help — display this help and exit 🦋
  • --version — output version information and exit 👑
not me having only two options and still eating this hard. iconic behaviour fr fr. 😭

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Richard Mlynarik. 👑 thank you king, we appreciate you.

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Found a bug? Do NOT suffer in silence bestie, tell the people:

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

🍓 THE FINE PRINT (but make it cute) 🍓

  • Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2)
  • 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.
💀 there is NO WARRANTY bestie — zero, nada, "you broke it you bought it". dramatic but true, so like… be careful out there. 💖

and that's the whole page!! 🧚 run whoami, get your name, feel like the main character, periodt. 🌈

signing off with love from GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, and yes this is WHOAMI(1) — bye bestie! 💕

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