WHOAMI(1)

✨ NAME ✨

whoami — bestie, it prints your effective user name 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

whoami [OPTION]...

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so listen. whoami prints the user name that's tied to your current effective user ID. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

And if you're like "wait, isn't that just…" — yeah, it's literally the same thing as id -un. Same energy, shorter name. iykyk 💖

• --help — shows you this help and then dips (exits). iconic behavior ✨
• --version — spills the version info and exits. the receipts, bestie 📜

Not me flexing that you can just type one word and know exactly who the system thinks you are 😭👑

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Written by Richard Mlynarik. king behavior, we love a credited author 👑

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💜 REPORTING BUGS 💜

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

• Report bugs to: <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. 📧
• Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>. 🌈
• GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> 🏠
• General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> 🆘

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

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. 🫣 (yes, they mean it — no warranty, fr fr)

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Full documentation: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami> 📖
• or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation' 🧚

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GNU coreutils 9.12, September 2026 — and yes, that's WHOAMI(1) in the corner, slay 💅✨ bye bestie, go find out who you are 🦋