Linux commands: whoami

Sep 17, 2020

Learn how the Linux whoami command prints the user name currently logged in to your terminal session, and how it differs from the more detailed who am i.

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Type whoami to print the user name currently logged in to the terminal session:

Terminal window showing the whoami command executed, returning flavio as the current user

Note: this is different from the who am i command, which prints more information

The whoami command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment

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