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32.\"     @(#)who.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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35.Dd May 8, 2002
36.Dt WHO 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm who
40.Nd display who is on the system
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl HmqsTu
44.Op Cm am I
45.Op Ar file
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility displays information about currently logged in users.
50By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
51remote hostname if not local.
52.Pp
53The options are as follows:
54.Bl -tag -width indent
55.It Fl H
56Write column headings above the output.
57.It Fl m
58Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
59.It Fl q
60.Dq "Quick mode" :
61List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
62All other command line options are ignored.
63.It Fl s
64Show the name, line and time fields only.
65This is the default.
66.It Fl T
67Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
68One of the following characters is written:
69.Pp
70.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
71.It Li +
72User is accepting messages.
73.It Li \&-
74User is not accepting messages.
75.It Li \&?
76An error occurred.
77.El
78.It Fl u
79Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
80.Ar hh Ns : Ns Ar mm ,
81.Ql \&.
82if the user has been idle less that a minute, and
83.Dq Li old
84if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
85.It Cm am I
86Equivalent to
87.Fl m .
88.El
89.Pp
90By default,
91.Nm
92gathers information from the file
93.Pa /var/run/utmp .
94An alternate
95.Ar file
96may be specified which is usually
97.Pa /var/log/wtmp
98(or
99.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
100depending on site policy as
101.Pa wtmp
102can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
103be kept around after compression by
104.Xr ac 8 ) .
105The
106.Pa wtmp
107file contains a record of every login, logout,
108crash, shutdown and date change
109since
110.Pa wtmp
111was last truncated or
112created.
113.Pp
114If
115.Pa /var/log/wtmp
116is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
117or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.
118Logouts produce
119an output line without any user name.
120For more information on the
121special characters, see
122.Xr utmp 5 .
123.Sh ENVIRONMENT
124The
125.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
126and
127.Ev LC_TIME
128environment variables affect the execution of
129.Nm
130as described in
131.Xr environ 7 .
132.Sh FILES
133.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
134.It Pa /var/run/utmp
135.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
136.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
137.El
138.Sh EXIT STATUS
139.Ex -std
140.Sh SEE ALSO
141.Xr last 1 ,
142.Xr users 1 ,
143.Xr w 1 ,
144.Xr utmp 5
145.Sh STANDARDS
146The
147.Nm
148utility conforms to
149.St -p1003.1-2001 .
150.Sh HISTORY
151A
152.Nm
153command appeared in
154.At v1 .
155