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PINKY(1) User Commands PINKY(1)

NAME

pinky - lightweight finger

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

produce long format output for the specified USERs
omit the user's home directory and shell in long format
omit the user's project file in long format
omit the user's plan file in long format
do short format output, this is the default
omit the line of column headings in short format
omit the user's full name in short format
omit the user's full name and remote host in short format
omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format
attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS
display this help and exit
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

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 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.

SEE ALSO

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

September 2024 GNU coreutils 9.5