NAME 

whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS 

whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION 

Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.

--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR 

Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS 

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT 

Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO 

The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info whoami

should give you access to the complete manual.