USERS(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 USERS(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for users, and no bc you're gonna slay this one. it's giving "who's online rn" but make it Unix. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

users — print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic honestly. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

users [FILE]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so literally what this does: it prints the user names of users who are currently logged in to the current host. that's the vibe. one job, does it well, no notes. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — prints help. your little "what do i do" button. 🫶
  • -V, --version — prints version. so you know what you're working with. 💜
  • [file] — a file to look at instead of the default one, which we get into right below. lowkey the main character of this page. 🌈

🔥 EXTRA 🔥

Here's the tea: this outputs who is currently logged in according to FILE. so if you hand it a file, it reads that instead. 📂

If FILE is not specified, it uses /var/run/utmp. that's the default, that's the one it reaches for when you give it nothing. 🍓

and btw, /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common. people do that a lot. iykyk. 💀

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

Print logged in usernames:

users

Print logged in usernames according to a given file:

users /var/log/wmtp
💖 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. no cap, it's a WIP, be nice to it 🥺

okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and users 🧚 this was the USERS(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated 2026-09-25 — and the version is v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, mwah 💋 periodt. 💅

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