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who - who

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  Arguments:  OPTIONS 

NAME

who − who

SYNOPSIS

who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ]

DESCRIPTION

Print information about users who are currently logged in.Note: When built with musl libc, the ‘who‘ utility will not display any information about logged−in users. This is due to musl’s stub implementation of ‘utmpx‘ functions, which prevents access to the necessary data.

Arguments:

[FILE]...

OPTIONS

−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

−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

−u, −−users

list users logged in

−T, −−mesg

add user’s message status as +, − or ? [aliases: −w, −−message, −−writable]

−h, −−help

Print help

−V, −−version

Print version

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.


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