LOGNAME(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, pull up a chair 🫶 this one is logname — literally just prints your login name. that's it. that's the whole thing. she's small, she's mighty, she's section 1 of the General Commands Manual and she knows it 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

logname

no flags needed, no arguments, no drama. she just vibes 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

prints your login name. like, the name you logged in with. that's the entire job description and honestly? iconic. some commands do the absolute most and this one said "no, I know exactly who I am" and that's main character energy fr fr 💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — prints help. she will tell you about herself, as she should 🦋
  • -V, --version — prints the version. she'll show you her credentials ✨

🍓 VERSION 🍓

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

(the parentheses there? yeah they're in there for real, no cap. we did not make that up 🙈)

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

so you wanna display the currently logged in user's name? say less, bestie:

logname

boom. that's it. slayed 💅

💌 little heads up: these examples are provided by the tldr-pages project at https://tldr.sh under the CC BY 4.0 License. and psst — since uutils is still a work in progress, some examples might fail 😭 not because you did anything wrong, just because she's still cooking 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! she's tiny, she's perfect, she prints your login name, we're obsessed 💖

kisses from the uutils coreutils squad, brought to you by version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-25, part of LOGNAME(1) in the General Commands Manual ✨👑🌸 bye babes!!

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