whoami(1)

whoami1

Display effective user id

Usage

whoami

Overview

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.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 40 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.2.2
  2. 2.2.5–3.5.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 4.1–4.2
  5. 4.3
  6. 4.4–4.11
  7. 5.0–5.5
  8. 6.0–6.3
  9. 6.4
  10. 7.0
  11. 7.1
  12. 7.2
  13. 7.3
  14. 7.4
  15. 8.0
  16. 8.1
  17. 8.2
  18. 8.3
  19. 8.4
  20. 9.0
  21. 9.1
  22. 9.2
  23. 9.3
  24. 10.0
  25. 10.1
  26. 10.2
  27. 10.3
  28. 10.4
  29. 11.0
  30. 11.1
  31. 11.2
  32. 11.3
  33. 11.4
  34. 12.0
  35. 12.1
  36. 12.2
  37. 12.3
  38. 12.4
  39. 13.0–13.2
  40. 13.3–14.5
  41. 15.0–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.