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who - who is logged in on the system

SYNOPSIS

who [ who-file ] [ am i ]

DESCRIPTION

Used without arguments, who lists the login name, terminal name, and login time for each current user. who gets this information from the /etc/utmp file.

If a filename argument is given, the named file is examined instead of /etc/utmp. Typically the named file is /var/adm/wtmp, which contains a record of all logins since it was created. In this case, who lists logins, logouts, and crashes. Each login is listed with user name, terminal name (with /dev/ suppressed), and date and time. Logouts produce a similar line without a user name. Reboots produce a line with `~' in place of the device name, and a fossil time indicating when the system went down. Finally, the adjacent pair of entries `|' and `}' indicate the system-maintained time just before and after a date command changed the system's idea of the time.

With two arguments, as in `who am i' (and also `who is who'), who tells who you are logged in as: it displays your hostname, login name, terminal name, and login time.

EXAMPLES

example% who am i
example!ralph	ttyp0	Apr 27 11:24
example%

example% who
mktg	  ttym0	Apr 27 11:11
gwen	  ttyp0	Apr 27 11:25
ralph	  ttyp1	Apr 27 11:30
example%

FILES

/etc/utmp
/var/adm/wtmp

SEE ALSO

login.1 w.1 whoami.1 utmp.5v locale.5


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