Technical Notes

Manpages - who.1

NAME

who - show who is logged on

SYNOPSIS

who [/OPTION/]… [ /FILE | ARG1 ARG2 /]

DESCRIPTION

Print information about users who are currently logged in.

-a, –all
same as -b -d –login -p -r -t -T -u
-b, –boot
time of last system boot
-d, –dead
print dead processes
-H, –heading
print line of column headings
-l, –login
print system login processes
–lookup
attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS
-m
only hostname and user associated with stdin
-p, –process
print active processes spawned by init
-q, –count
all login names and number of users logged on
-r, –runlevel
print current runlevel
-s, –short
print only name, line, and time (default)
-t, –time
print last system clock change
-T, -w, –mesg
add user's message status as +, - or ?
-u, –users
list users logged in
–message
same as -T
–writable
same as -T
–help
display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit

If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp. /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common. If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: 'am i' or 'mom likes' are usual.

AUTHOR

Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Michael Stone.

REPORTING BUGS

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/who>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) who invocation'

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