[Cialug] 'whoami' versus 'who am i', or Identity crisis in Linux-Land

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Mon Jul 21 16:01:04 CDT 2008


Colin Burnett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have no idea why I get such a kick out of this command, other than the
>> fact that it looks like it should not be a real command.
>>     
>
> `who mom likes`
>   
Looks like any iteration of "who foo bar" returns what Jeff discovered 
with "who am i". So "who are you" returns the same as "who am i". If you 
do "who a b" it returns the result, but "who a" returns nothing.

-dc




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