PINKY(1)

💖 PINKY(1) — the brief-user-info girlie 💖

okay so bestie, pinky is a General Commands Manual page and it's literally here to display brief user information on Unix-based systems. that's the whole vibe. short, sweet, iconic. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pinky — Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems. that's it, that's the job, no cap. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l — produce long format output for the specified USERs. we're going full main character, no short answers here 🫶
• -b — omit the user's home directory and shell in long format. bye bye $HOME, bye bye shell 💀
• -h — omit the user's project file in long format. (and no bestie, this is NOT the help flag, --help is a whole separate thing 🙈)
• -p — omit the user's plan file in long format. keeping your plans private, we love a mysterious queen 👑
• -s — do short format output, this is the default. so if you don't say anything, this is what you're getting, periodt 🌈
• -f — omit the line of column headings in short format. no labels, just vibes
• -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. maximum minimalism, she's giving less is more 💅
• --lookup — attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS 🔍
• --help — Print help information
• -V, --version — Print version
• [user] — the user(s) you're asking about, bestie

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

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

💖 The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. (ngl that last part is so real — it's a work in progress, be gentle 😭)

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🧚 this whole manual was dated 2026-09-25, and you just read the PINKY(1) page. slay, go forth and check on your users 💖✨🎀