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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
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!!NAME


w - Show who is logged on and what they are doing.
!!SYNOPSIS


__w -__ [[__husfV__] [[''user'']
!!DESCRIPTION


__w__ displays information about the users currently on
the machine, and their processes. The header shows, in this
order, the current time, how long the system has been
running, how many users are currently logged on, and the
system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15
minutes.


The following entries are displayed for each user: login
name, the tty name, the remote host, login time, idle time,
JCPU, PCPU, and the command line of their current
process.


The JCPU time is the time used by all processes attached to
the tty. It does not include past background jobs, but does
include currently running background jobs.


The PCPU time is the time used by the current process, named
in the
!!COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS


__-h__


Don't print the header.


__-u__


Ignores the username while figuring out the current process
and cpu times. To demonstrate this, do a


__-s__


Use the short format. Don't print the login time, JCPU or
PCPU times.


__-f__


Toggle printing the __from__ (remote hostname) field. The
default as released is for the __from__ field to not be
printed, although your system administrator or distribution
maintainer may have compiled a version in which the
__from__ field is shown by default.


__-V__


Display version information.


__user__


Show information about the specified user only.
!!FILES


''/var/run/utmp''


information about who is currently logged on


''/proc''


process information
!!SEE ALSO


free(1), ps(1), top(1),
uptime(1), utmp(5), who(1)
!!AUTHORS


__w__ was re-written almost entirely by Charles Blake,
based on the version by Larry Greenfield
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Please send bug reports to
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