WHOAMI(1) General Commands Manual WHOAMI(1)

whoamidisplay effective user id

whoami

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.

The whoami utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

id(1)

June 6, 1993 macOS 15.2