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pinky - pinky

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  Arguments:  OPTIONS 

NAME

pinky − pinky

SYNOPSIS

pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...

DESCRIPTION

Displays brief user information on Unix−based systemsWarning: When built with musl libc, the ‘pinky‘ utility may show incomplete or missing user information due to musl’s stub implementation of ‘utmpx‘ functions. This limitation affects the ability to retrieve accurate details about logged−in users.

Arguments:

[user]...

OPTIONS

−l

produce long format output for the specified USERs

−b

omit the user’s home directory and shell in long format

−h

omit the user’s project file in long format

−p

omit the user’s plan file in long format

−s

do short format output, this is the default

−f

omit the line of column headings in short format

−w

omit the user’s full name in short format

−i

omit the user’s full name and remote host in short format

−q

omit the user’s full name, remote host and idle time in short format

−−lookup

attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS

−−help

Print help information

−V, −−version

Print version

A lightweight ’finger’ program; print user information. The utmp file will be/var/run/utmp


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se