WHO(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 WHO(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to who(1), a General Commands Manual classic 🫶 this is the little cutie that tells you who's currently logged in. she's been in the game forever and she ate, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

who — print information about users who are currently logged in. that's it, that's the whole personality 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print information about users who are currently logged in. literally it just tells you who's on the system rn. main character energy of "who's here" 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -a, --all — same as -b -d --login -p -r -t -T -u. she does ✨all of it✨
  • -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
  • -u, --users — list users logged in
  • -T, --mesg — add user's message status as +, - or ?
  • -h, --help — Print help
  • -V, --version — Print version
  • [FILE] — a positional argument, she takes a file if you feel like it 📁
not me listing every single flag 💅 but yes, all of them, in order, none skipped, periodt.

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Display the username, line, and time of all currently logged-in sessions:

who

Display all available information:

who [-a|--all]

Display all available information with table headers:

who [-aH|--all --heading]

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. 🙈

real talk: this is a work in progress situation, so if an example acts up, that's why. not her fault, she's growing 🧚

the vibe check says we're done here, and lowkey that's iconic. this page came to us from uutils coreutils 0.12.0 dated 2026-09-25 — mwah, stan, bye bestie 💜✨

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