USERS

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NAME

users - print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host  

SYNOPSIS

users [FILE]
users {--help,--version}  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of users. users prints on a single line a blank-separated list of user names of users currently logged in to the current host. Each output user name corresponds to a login session, so if a user has more than one login session, that user's name will appear the same number of times in the output. With no file argument, users extracts its information from the file /etc/utmp . If a file argument is given, users uses that file instead. A common choice is /etc/wtmp .  

OPTIONS

--help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

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