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34.\"     @(#)who.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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36.Dd December 6, 1994
37.Dt WHO 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm who
41.Nd display who is logged in
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl mTuH
45.Op Ar file
46.Nm ""
47.Ar am i
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for
52each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and
53hostname if not local.
54.Pp
55Available options:
56.Pp
57.Bl -tag -width file
58.It Fl m
59Only print information about the current terminal.  This is the
60.Tn POSIX
61way of saying
62.Nm
63.Ar am i .
64.It Fl T
65Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the
66terminal line:
67.Sq +
68if the terminal is writable;
69.Sq -
70if it is not;
71and
72.Sq ?
73if a bad line is encountered.
74.It Fl u
75Print the idle time for each user.
76.It Fl H
77Write column headings above the regular output.
78.It Ar \&am I
79Returns the invoker's real user name.
80.It Ar file
81By default,
82.Nm
83gathers information from the file
84.Pa /var/run/utmp .
85An alternative
86.Ar file
87may be specified which is usually
88.Pa /var/log/wtmp
89(or
90.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
91depending on site policy as
92.Pa wtmp
93can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
94be kept around after compression by
95.Xr ac 8 ) .
96The
97.Pa wtmp
98file contains a record of every login, logout,
99crash, shutdown and date change
100since
101.Pa wtmp
102was last truncated or
103created.
104.El
105.Pp
106If
107.Pa /var/log/wtmp
108is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
109or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
110an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
111special characters, see
112.Xr utmp 5 .
113.Sh FILES
114.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
115.It Pa /var/run/utmp
116.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
117.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
118.El
119.Sh SEE ALSO
120.Xr last 1 ,
121.Xr mesg 1 ,
122.Xr users 1 ,
123.Xr getuid 2 ,
124.Xr utmp 5
125.Sh STANDARDS
126The
127.Nm
128utility is expected to conform to
129.St -p1003.2-92 .
130.Sh HISTORY
131A
132.Nm
133utility appeared in
134.At v6 .
135