pinky

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

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

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 under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.