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