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

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Monday July 21 2008 15:56, 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`

>From who(1):

"If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp.  /var/log/wtmp as FILE  is
 common.   If  ARG1  ARG2  given, -m presumed: $B!F(Bam i$B!G(B or $B!F(Bmom likes$B!G(B are
 usual."

So who plus any two words that don't begin with a dash are OK.

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