PINKY(1)

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version 9.12 · 23 versions
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💖 PINKY(1) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🎀 this is the manual page for pinky, one of the GNU coreutils girlies. User Commands energy, but make it group chat.

✨ NAME ✨

pinky — lightweight finger 🌸

yes that's literally the name. it's a little finger but make it low-cal. iykyk 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, users go in, info comes out ✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the tea: you give it some *USER*s, it tells you stuff about them. you don't give it any, it does its own thing. and every single one of these flags below? iconic. let me walk you through them one by one, no skipping, fr fr 👑

  • -l — produce long format output for the specified *USER*s 📜 (the full glow-up version)
  • -b — omit the user's home directory and shell when you're 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 one is the default, she's the main character 👑
  • -f — omit that whole 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 ⏳ (the maximal minimalist, she's giving less-is-more)
  • --lookup — attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS 🔍✨
  • --help — display this help and exit 🆘
  • --version — output version information and exit 🏷️

and the summary, since it's literally the description of the program itself:

A lightweight finger program; print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp. 📌

note bestie: the utmp file is /var/run/utmp — that's the path, keep it exactly like that, don't be out here improvising 💀

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi. three absolute legends, we stan 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

if something's broken, tell the girlies. they wanna know. fr fr.

Copyright © 2026 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. ⚠️ like, none. zero. the legal girlies said so.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this was GNU coreutils 9.12, from September 2026 — and yes, that's the footer, so i'm folding it in right here as a little sign-off. go read your user info, bestie. you got this. 🦋✨

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