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36.Dd October 25, 2004
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 bHmqsTu
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 b
57Show date and time of last reboot.
58.It Fl H
59Write column headings above the output.
60.It Fl m
61Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
62.It Fl q
63.Dq "Quick mode" :
64List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
65All other command line options are ignored.
66.It Fl s
67Show the name, line and time fields only.
68This is the default.
69.It Fl T
70Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
71One of the following characters is written:
72.Pp
73.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
74.It Li +
75User is accepting messages.
76.It Li \&-
77User is not accepting messages.
78.It Li \&?
79An error occurred.
80.El
81.It Fl u
82Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
83.Ar hh Ns : Ns Ar mm ,
84.Ql \&.
85if the user has been idle less that a minute, and
86.Dq Li old
87if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
88.It Cm am I
89Equivalent to
90.Fl m .
91.El
92.Pp
93By default,
94.Nm
95gathers information from the file
96.Pa /var/run/utmp .
97An alternate
98.Ar file
99may be specified which is usually
100.Pa /var/log/wtmp
101(or
102.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
103depending on site policy as
104.Pa wtmp
105can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
106be kept around after compression by
107.Xr ac 8 ) .
108The
109.Pa wtmp
110file contains a record of every login, logout,
111crash, shutdown and date change
112since
113.Pa wtmp
114was last truncated or
115created.
116.Pp
117If
118.Pa /var/log/wtmp
119is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
120or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
121an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
122special characters, see
123.Xr utmp 5 .
124.Sh ENVIRONMENT
125The
126.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
127and
128.Ev LC_TIME
129environment variables affect the execution of
130.Nm
131as described in
132.Xr environ 7 .
133.Sh FILES
134.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
135.It Pa /var/run/utmp
136.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
137.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
138.El
139.Sh EXIT STATUS
140.Ex -std
141.Sh SEE ALSO
142.Xr last 1 ,
143.Xr users 1 ,
144.Xr w 1 ,
145.Xr utmp 5
146.Sh STANDARDS
147The
148.Nm
149utility conforms to
150.St -p1003.1-2001 .
151.Sh HISTORY
152A
153.Nm
154command appeared in
155.At v1 .
156