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Manual: gnuwho

WHO(1)							User Commands						      WHO(1)

NAME
       who - show who is logged on

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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SEE ALSO
       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) who invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7					January 2026						      WHO(1)