NAME
who
—
display who is logged in
SYNOPSIS
who |
[-HmqTu ] [file] |
who |
am i |
DESCRIPTION
The who
utility displays a list of all
users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name,
the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.
The options are as follows:
-H
- Write column headings above the regular output.
-m
- Only print information about the current terminal. This is the POSIX way
of saying
who
am i. -q
- (Quick.) List only the names and the number of users currently logged on. When this option is used, all other options are ignored.
-T
- Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the terminal line: ‘+’ if the terminal is writable; ‘-’ if it is not; and ‘?’ if a bad line is encountered.
-u
- Print the idle time for each user.
- am I
- Returns the invoker's real user name.
- file
- By default,
who
gathers information from the file /var/run/utmp. An alternate file may be specified which is usually /var/log/wtmp (or /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] depending on site policy as wtmp can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not be kept around after compression by ac(8)). The wtmp file contains a record of every login, logout, crash, shutdown and date change since wtmp was last truncated or created.
If /var/log/wtmp is being used as the
file, the user name may be empty or one of the special characters
‘|
’,
‘}
’, and
‘~
’. Logouts produce an output line
without any user name. For more information on the special characters, see
utmp(5).
FILES
- /var/run/utmp
- /var/log/wtmp
- /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
EXIT STATUS
The who
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The who
utility is compliant with the
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification.
HISTORY
A who
utility appeared in
Version 1 AT&T UNIX.