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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 who
44.Op Fl mTu
45.Op Ar file
46.Nm who
47.Ar am i
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm who
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 who
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 Ar \&am I
77Returns the invoker's real user name.
78.It Ar file
79By default,
80.Nm who
81gathers information from the file
82.Pa /var/run/utmp .
83An alternate
84.Ar file
85may be specified which is usually
86.Pa /var/log/wtmp
87(or
88.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
89depending on site policy as
90.Pa wtmp
91can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
92be kept around after compression by
93.Xr ac 8 ) .
94The
95.Pa wtmp
96file contains a record of every login, logout,
97crash, shutdown and date change
98since
99.Pa wtmp
100was last truncated or
101created.
102.El
103.Pp
104If
105.Pa /var/log/wtmp
106is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
107or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
108an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
109special characters, see
110.Xr utmp 5 .
111.Sh FILES
112.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
113.It Pa /var/run/utmp
114.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
115.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
116.El
117.Sh SEE ALSO
118.Xr last 1 ,
119.Xr mesg 1 ,
120.Xr users 1 ,
121.Xr getuid 2 ,
122.Xr utmp 5
123.Sh HISTORY
124A
125.Nm
126utility appeared in
127.At v6 .
128.Sh STANDARDS
129The
130.Nm
131utility is expected to conform to
132.St -p1003.2-92 .
133