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PINKY
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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NAME
pinky - lightweight finger
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 Debian (9.7-3)
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.
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