whoami: a pedestrian user id retriever

Version 1.0.0.0 (2.77 KB) by us
whoami displays a full user id and retrieves system properties
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Updated 23 Jun 2008

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WHOAMI displays a long user id (LID) in the form
%time|username|domain|hostname|osarch|osname|osver|MLver

WHOAMI optionally returns various system properties including a short user id (SID), which only contains static information about the current system
programmers can easily create their own IDs or change the built-in formats, which may be a useful tag in source control

example of the short output (note: formatting will most likely be bad)

>> w=whoami;
>> w
magic: 'WHOAMI'
WHOAMIver: '18-Jun-2008 13:47:52'
MLver: '7.6.0.324.R2008a'
runtime: '18-Jun-2008 14:02:09'
sid: '%us|USZ|ws-nos-36362|x86|Windows XP|7.6.0.324.R2008a'
lid: [1x77 char]
name: 'us'
domain: 'USZ'
host: 'ws-nos-36362'
ip: 'xxx.yyy.141.135'
osarch: 'x86'
osname: 'Windows XP'
osver: '5.1'

see

>> help whoami

for further explanations of the self-explanatory snippet

Cite As

us (2024). whoami: a pedestrian user id retriever (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/20321-whoami-a-pedestrian-user-id-retriever), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R14
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

added more information in the help section and the screen shot, which got lost the first time; version tag 18-Jun-2008 13:47:52