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pinky

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lightweight finger

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

Options

12
-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

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

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.