WHO

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NAME

who - display who is logged in  

SYNOPSIS

[-mTuH ] [file ]
am i  

DESCRIPTION

The utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.

Available options:

-m
Only print information about the current terminal. This is the POSIX way of saying am i
-T
Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the terminal line: `+ ' if the terminal is writable; `- ' if it is not; and `?' if a bad line is encountered.
-u
Print the idle time for each user.
-H
Write column headings above the regular output.
am I
Returns the invoker's real user name.
file
By default, gathers information from the file /var/run/utmp An alternative file may be specified which is usually /var/log/wtmp (or /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] depending on site policy as wtmp can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not be kept around after compression by ac(8)). The wtmp file contains a record of every login, logout, crash, shutdown and date change since wtmp was last truncated or created.

If /var/log/wtmp is being used as the file, the user name may be empty or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'. Logouts produce an output line without any user name. For more information on the special characters, see utmp(5).  

FILES

/var/run/utmp
/var/log/wtmp
/var/log/wtmp.[0-6]

 

SEE ALSO

last(1), mesg(1), users(1), getuid(2), utmp(5)  

STANDARDS

The utility is expected to conform to St -p1003.2-92 .  

HISTORY

A utility appeared in AT&T System v6 .


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
HISTORY

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