WHOAMI(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WHOAMI(1) NAME whoami - display effective user id SYNOPSIS whoami DESCRIPTION The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equivalent to "id -un". The command "id -p" is suggested for normal interactive use. The whoami utility displays your effective user ID as a name. EXIT STATUS The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO id(1) FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE June 6, 1993 FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE