pinky - Man Page

• Display details about the current user: pinky
• Display details for a specific user: pinky user
• Display details in the long format: pinky user -l
• Omit the user's home directory and shell in long format: pinky user -lb
• Omit the user's project file in long format: pinky user -lh
• Omit the column headings in short format: pinky user -f

tldr.sh

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

-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

--lookup

attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS

--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.

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

Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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