pinky - Man Page

lightweight finger

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...

Description

-l

produce long format output for the specified USERs

-b

omit the user's home directory and shell in long format

-h

omit the user's project file in long format

-p

omit the user's plan file in long format

-s

do short format output, this is the default

-f

omit the line of column headings in short format

-w

omit the user's full name in short format

-i

omit the user's full name and remote host in short format

-q

omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

A lightweight 'finger' program;  print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp.

Author

Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pinky>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) pinky invocation'

Info

January 2024 GNU coreutils 9.4