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36.Dd May 8, 2002
37.Dt WHO 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm who
41.Nd display who is on the system
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl HmqsTu
45.Op Cm am I
46.Op Ar file
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility displays information about currently logged in users.
51By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
52remote hostname if not local.
53.Pp
54The options are as follows:
55.Bl -tag -width indent
56.It Fl H
57Write column headings above the output.
58.It Fl m
59Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
60.It Fl q
61.Dq "Quick mode" :
62List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
63All other command line options are ignored.
64.It Fl s
65Show the name, line and time fields only.
66This is the default.
67.It Fl T
68Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
69One of the following characters is written:
70.Pp
71.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
72.It Li +
73User is accepting messages.
74.It Li \&-
75User is not accepting messages.
76.It Li \&?
77An error occurred.
78.El
79.It Fl u
80Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
81.Ar hh Ns : Ns Ar mm ,
82.Ql \&.
83if the user has been idle less that a minute, and
84.Dq Li old
85if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
86.It Cm am I
87Equivalent to
88.Fl m .
89.El
90.Pp
91By default,
92.Nm
93gathers information from the file
94.Pa /var/run/utmp .
95An alternate
96.Ar file
97may be specified which is usually
98.Pa /var/log/wtmp
99(or
100.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
101depending on site policy as
102.Pa wtmp
103can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
104be kept around after compression by
105.Xr ac 8 ) .
106The
107.Pa wtmp
108file contains a record of every login, logout,
109crash, shutdown and date change
110since
111.Pa wtmp
112was last truncated or
113created.
114.Pp
115If
116.Pa /var/log/wtmp
117is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
118or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
119an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
120special characters, see
121.Xr utmp 5 .
122.Sh ENVIRONMENT
123The
124.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
125and
126.Ev LC_TIME
127environment variables affect the execution of
128.Nm
129as described in
130.Xr environ 7 .
131.Sh FILES
132.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
133.It Pa /var/run/utmp
134.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
135.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
136.El
137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
138.Ex -std
139.Sh SEE ALSO
140.Xr last 1 ,
141.Xr users 1 ,
142.Xr w 1 ,
143.Xr utmp 5
144.Sh STANDARDS
145The
146.Nm
147utility conforms to
148.St -p1003.1-2001 .
149.Sh HISTORY
150A
151.Nm
152command appeared in
153.At v1 .
154