whoami(1)

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version 0.7.0 Β· 2 versions
, in epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ whoami(1) β€” it's in the General Commands Manual, bestie ✨

okay so. picture this. you're in a terminal, you've been ssh'd into like four boxes, you've got seventeen tabs open, and you genuinely cannot remember which little guy you are right now. relatable. that's the whole job of whoami. it's the "wait, who am I" of commands and it always comes through. πŸ’–


🌸 NAME 🌸

whoami β€” print the current username. that's it. that's the gig. short, sweet, iconic. πŸ’…


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

whoami [-h|--help] [-V|--version]

look at her. no arguments. no drama. she just is. πŸ¦‹


πŸ’œ DESCRIPTION πŸ’œ

print the current username.

like, that's literally the entire description. no secret modes, no flags that change your whole life, no config file to get lost in. you run whoami, it tells you who you are, you move on with your day. main character energy, minimal effort. πŸ‘‘

ngl this is the command you run when you forgot whether you're root or not, and honestly? it never misses. fr fr.


🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -h, --help β€” print help. you're confused, it's got you, it prints the help. 🫢
  • -V, --version β€” print version. shows you the version info, in case you needed to know exactly which flavor of whoami you're vibing with. ⭐

πŸ“ VERSION πŸ“

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0
careful, bestie: that's the version string exactly as it is β€” the little v at the front is part of it, don't go "fixing" it. πŸ’€

and that's the page!! πŸ’– this one comes to you from whoami (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, served fresh out of the General Commands Manual, and yes she is still as iconic as ever. go find out who you are. i believe in you. 🧚✨

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
  • epel 10: rust-coreutils-devel 0.7.0-10.el10_3 Β· MIT
  • epel 10: uutils-coreutils 0.7.0-10.el10_3 Β· (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND (Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-2-Clause AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND ISC AND MIT AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT-0 OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
  • fedora 43: rust-coreutils-devel 0.7.0-12.fc43 Β· MIT
  • fedora 43: uutils-coreutils 0.7.0-12.fc43 Β· (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND (Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-2-Clause AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND ISC AND MIT AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT-0 OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
  • fedora 44: rust-coreutils-devel 0.7.0-4.fc44 Β· MIT
  • fedora 44: uutils-coreutils 0.7.0-4.fc44 Β· (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Zlib AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND (Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-2-Clause AND (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND ISC AND MIT AND (MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT-0 OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
  • πŸ’– girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms