pinky — lightweight finger
Examples (TL;DR)
-
Display details about the current user:
pinky -
Display details for a specific user:
pinky user -
Display details in the long format:
pinky user -l -
Omit the user's home directory and shell in long format:
pinky user -lb -
Omit the user's project file in long format:
pinky user -lh -
Omit the column headings in short format:
pinky user -f
Synopsis
pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...
Description
- -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
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
A lightweight 'finger' program; print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp.
Reporting Bugs
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pinky>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) pinky invocation'