Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

who

Synopsis

who [options] [file]

Displays information about the current status of the system. With no options, lists the names of users currently logged in to the system. An optional system file (default is /var/run/utmp) can be supplied to give additional information. who is usually invoked without options, but useful options include am i and -u. For more examples, see cut, line, paste, tee, and wc.

Options

-H

Print headings.

-m

Report only about the current terminal.

-T

Report whether terminals are writable (+), not writable (-), or unknown (?).

-u

Report terminal usage (idle time). A dot (.) means less than one minute idle; old means more than 24 hours idle.

am i

Print the username of the invoking user. (Similar to results from id.)

Example

This sample output was produced at 1:55 p.m. on January 15:

$ who -uH
USER     LINE     WHEN         IDLE     FROM
chuck    console  Jan 14 19:55 18:01 
chuck    ttyp1    Jan 15 13:11   .   
chuck    ttyp2    Jan 15 13:55   .

The output shows that the user chuck has been idle for 18 hours and 1 minute (18:01, under the IDLE column).