who

Examples (TL;DR)

• Display the username, line, and time of all currently logged-in sessions: who
• Display information only for the current terminal session: who am i
• Display all available information: who -a
• Display all available information with table headers: who -a -H

tldr.sh

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

-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

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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/who>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) who invocation'

Referenced By

aterm(1), finger(1), mksh(1), rpc.rusersd(8), rusers(1), rwho(1), rxvt(1), talk(1), urxvt(1), users(1), utmp(5), utmpdump(1), w(1), write(1), x11vnc(1).