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# WHOAMI(1L) manual page

## Name

whoami - print effective userid

## Synopsis

whoami [--help] [--version]

## Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of whoami. whoami prints the user name associated with the current effective user ID. It is equivalent to the command `id -un'.

### Options

--help
  Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
  Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

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