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veritosproject
Date:
October 4, 2006 09:47
Subject:
whoami implementation
Message ID:
6dcbe5980610040947g2359d7d0q7e3a5d629f14dacc@mail.gmail.com
#!/usr/bin/perl
# whoami for PPT
# Public domain.
# by David Koenig.

print getpwuid($>)."\n";

__END__

=head1 NAME

whoami - display effective user ID

=head1 SYNOPSIS

whoami

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The I<whoami> utility is obsolite.  Use I<id -un>.

This utility simply returns the effective user ID.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<id(1)>

=head1 AUTHOR

David Koenig <veritosproject@gmail.com>.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

This page, as well as the implementation of the utility, are public domain.

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