NAME¶

pinky - Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems

SYNOPSIS¶

pinky [-l ] [-b ] [-h ] [-p ] [-s ] [-f ] [-w ] [-i ] [-q ] [--lookup] [--help] [-V|--version] [user]

DESCRIPTION¶

Displays brief user information on Unix-based systems

OPTIONS¶

-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

Print help information

-V, --version

Print version

[user]

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Display details about the current user:

pinky

Display details for a specific user:

pinky user

Display details in the long format:

pinky user -l

Omit the user's home directory and shell in long format:

pinky user -lb

Omit the user's project file in long format:

pinky user -lh

Omit the column headings in short format:

pinky user -f

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.