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WHO(1) User Commands 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.

same as -b -d --login -p -r -t -T -u
time of last system boot
print dead processes
print line of column headings
print system login processes
attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS
only hostname and user associated with stdin
print active processes spawned by init
all login names and number of users logged on
print current runlevel
print only name, line, and time (default)
print last system clock change
add user's message status as +, - or ?
list users logged in
same as -T
same as -T
display this help and exit
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.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report who translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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.

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.

November 2020 GNU coreutils 8.22