Sams Teach Yourself UNIX® in 24 Hours Second Edition

Seeing What's Going On Around You

You're logged in, looking at the command prompt, and ready to delve into this UNIX thing. Great! Let's have a look.…

Task 2.4: Who Are You?

While you're logged in to the system, you can learn a few more UNIX commands, including a couple that can answer a philosophical conundrum that has bothered men and women of thought for thousands of years: Who am I?

1. The easiest way to find out “who you are” is to enter the whoami command:

   % whoami
   taylor
   %
   

   Try it on your system. The command lists the account name associated ...