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users(1) General Commands Manual users(1)

NAME

users - Print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host.

SYNOPSIS

users [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host.

OPTIONS

Print help
Print version
[file]

EXTRA

Output who is currently logged in according to FILE. If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp. /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common.

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES

Print logged in usernames:

users

Print logged in usernames according to a given file:

users /var/log/wmtp

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.

users (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0