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32.\"     @(#)who.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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35.Dd December 30, 1993
36.Dt WHO 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm who
40.Nd display who is logged in
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Ar am I
44.Nm
45.Op Ar file
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility displays
50a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user
51the login name,
52tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.
53.Pp
54Available options:
55.Pp
56.Bl -tag -width file
57.It Ar \&am I
58Returns the invoker's real user name.
59.It Ar file
60By default,
61.Nm
62gathers information from the file
63.Pa /var/run/utmp .
64An alternate
65.Ar file
66may be specified which is usually
67.Pa /var/run/wtmp
68(or
69.Pa /var/run/wtmp.[0-6]
70depending on site policy as
71.Pa wtmp
72can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
73be kept around after compression by
74.Xr ac 8 ) .
75The
76.Pa wtmp
77file contains a record of every login, logout,
78crash, shutdown and date change
79since
80.Pa wtmp
81was last truncated or
82created.
83.El
84.Pp
85If
86.Pa /var/log/wtmp
87is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
88or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
89an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
90special characters, see
91.Xr utmp 5 .
92.Sh FILES
93.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
94.It Pa /var/run/utmp
95.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
96.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
97.El
98.Sh SEE ALSO
99.Xr last 1 ,
100.Xr users 1 ,
101.Xr getuid 2 ,
102.Xr utmp 5
103.Sh HISTORY
104A
105.Nm
106command appeared in
107.At v1 .
108