Name

users — stdin  stdout  - file  -- opt  --help  --version

Synopsis

users [filename]

The users command prints a quick listing of users who have login sessions. If a user is running multiple shells, she appears multiple times.

$ users
barrett jones smith smith smith

Like the who command, users reads /var/log/utmp by default but can read from another supplied file instead.

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