PINKY(1)

💖 PINKY(1) — the pinky manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you opened the pinky man page from the General Commands Manual section and you're like "what does this little icon do" — bestie, it's literally the cutest way to snoop on who's logged in 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pinky — displays brief user information on Unix-based systems 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems. that's it, that's the vibe — short, sweet, iconic 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -l — produce long format output for the specified USERs 👑 (yes the long format, we're getting the full tea)
• -b — omit the user's home directory and shell in long format 🏠 (privacy era)
• -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 is the default ⭐ (the main character, fr fr)
• -f — omit the line of column headings in short format 🚫 (no headers, 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 🦋 (even more mystery)
• -q — omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format 💀 (giving absolutely nothing, and honestly? slay)
• --lookup — attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS 🔍
• --help — print help information 💖
• -V, --version — print version 🎀
• [user] — the user (or users!) you're asking about 🧚

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 — no cap, that's the one ✨

so yeah, that's pinky for you — brief user info, zero unnecessary drama, and a whole lot of options to strip things out until it's just the vibe you wanted 😭💜

💌 cute little sign-off: this page is from uutils coreutils, version 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17. periodt. 🍓