pinky(1)

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

okay so bestie, welcome to pinky 💅 she lives in the General Commands Manual and she is literally your one-stop shop for a quick lil peek at who's on the system. brief user info, Unix-based systems, that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

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

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pinky [-l ] [-b ] [-h ] [-p ] [-s ] [-f ] [-w ] [-i ] [-q ] [--lookup]
[--help] [-V|--version] [user]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems ✨

that's it, that's the girl. she shows you a lil summary of users, and you can flex the format however you want with the flags below. short format is the default, so if you just run her raw she keeps it cute and quick 🎀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -l — produce long format output for the specified USERs 👑 she's giving full lore, not just the teaser
• -b — omit the user's home directory and shell in long format 🏠🙈 skip the home dir AND the shell
• -h — omit the user's project file in long format 📁 bye bye project file
• -p — omit the user's plan file in long format 📝 and the plan file too, gone
• -s — do short format output, this is the default ⭐ the classic, the icon, the default behaviour
• -f — omit the line of column headings in short format 🚫📊 no header row, just the data bestie
• -w — omit the user's full name in short format 🙈 names? not today
• -i — omit the user's full name and remote host in short format 🌐 full name AND remote host, both yeeted
• -q — omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format 💀 full name, remote host, AND idle time — the triple yeet, minimal girl
• --lookup — attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS 🔍 she'll try to canonicalize those hostnames via DNS
• --help — Print help information 🆘
• -V, --version — Print version 🔢
• [user] — the user you wanna know about 👀 optional, but if you pass it, that's who she's talking about

ngl bestie, -l is the long format and the short format flags (-f, -w, -i, -q) only apply to short format. pick your lane 💅

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🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this little gem is from pinky (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, hanging out in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. go forth and be nosy about your users, bestie 🫶✨💖