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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

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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.