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WHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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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 © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.shtml>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for who is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and who programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'who invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO

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