How can I find my User ID (UID) from terminal? – Oskamp

How can I find my User ID (UID) from terminal?

There are a couple of ways:

Using the id command you can get the real and effective user and group IDs.
```
id -u <username>
```
If no username is supplied to id, it will default to the current user.
Using the enviroment variable.
```
echo $UID
```