Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/23/2009 02:52 PM, subscriptions wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 21:44 +0100, Countable Infinity wrote:
> > 'who am i' produces the following output in gnome-terminal:
> >
> > humpty@nifty:~$ who am i
> > humpty    pts/2        2009-01-24 02:12 (:0.0)
> >
> > However, in mrxvt, it does not produce any output.
> >
> > humpty@nifty:~$ who am i
> > humpty@nifty:~$
> >
> > What could be the reason for this? Is this a bug?
>
> :) You did the command 'who' with parameters 'am' and 'i'.
>
> The command you are looking for is 'whoami'.

Pay closer attention:

GNOME TERMINAL:
$ who am i
me       pts/3        2009-01-23 14:58 (:0.0)
$ whoami
me

RXVT:
$ who am i
$ whoami
me

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