pinky(1)

pinky1

Lightweight finger

Usage

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

Overview

-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.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

--lookup since Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: <[email protected]>.
Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>.
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.