Whoami (Unix)
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- The correct title of this article is whoami. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
whoami is a Unix-command which outputs the username of the user which runs the command. The username is also stored in the $USER environment variable.
It is written by Richard Mlynarik and part of the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils).
[edit] Example
$ whoami Alice
