whoami

In

Overview

The command has the same effect as the Unix command

The earliest versions were created in 2.9 BSD as a convenience form for who am i, the Berkeley Unix who command's way of printing just the logged in user's identity. This version was developed by Bill Joy.^[2]

The GNU version was written by Richard Mlynarik and is part of the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils).

The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project^[3] and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.^[4]

On Intel iRMX 86 this command lists the currents user's identification and access rights.^[5]

The command is also available as part of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit^[6] and Windows XP SP2 Support Tools.^[7]

The ReactOS version was developed by Ismael Ferreras Morezuelas and is licensed under the

This command was also available as a NetWare-Command residing in the public-directory of the fileserver. It also outputs the current connections to which server the workstation is attached with which username.

Example

Unix, Unix-like

# whoami
root

Intel iRMX 86

--WHOAMI
USER ID: 5
ACCESS ID'S: 5, WORLD

Windows, ReactOS

C:\Users\admin>whoami
workgroup\admin

See also

• logname
• id
• who
• User identifiers for Unix
• List of Unix commands

References

Further reading

• Barrett, Daniel J. (2012). Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide: Take Command of Your Mac.
  ISBN 978-1449328986
  .
• Stanek, William R. (2008). Windows Command-Line Administrator's Pocket Consultant, 2nd Edition.
  ISBN 978-0735622623
  .

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Guide to Windows Commands

• whoami(1) – 
  4.2BSD General Commands Manual
• whoami(1) – FreeBSD General Commands Manual
• whoami | Microsoft Docs