WHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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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
--ips: print ips instead of hostnames. with --lookup, canonicalizes based on stored IP, if available, rather than stored hostname
-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

Report who bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report who translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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