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Name

Synopsis

Availability

SUNWscpu

Description

whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID . If you have used su to temporarily adopt another user, whoami will report the login name associated with that user ID . whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid and getpwnam(3C) , respectively).

Files

/etc/passwd

username data base

See Also

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