pinky
lightweight finger
- Provided by: gnu-coreutils (Version: 9.7-3ubuntu2)
- Source: coreutils
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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
- --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.
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'
Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
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.