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20.5 ‘users’: Print login names of users currently logged in
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‘users’ prints on a single line a blank-separated list of user names of
users currently logged in to the current host. Each user name
corresponds to a login session, so if a user has more than one login
session, that user’s name will appear the same number of times in the
output. Synopsis:
users [FILE]
With no FILE argument, ‘users’ extracts its information from a
system-maintained file (often ‘/var/run/utmp’ or ‘/etc/utmp’). If a
file argument is given, ‘users’ uses that file instead. A common choice
is ‘/var/log/wtmp’.
The only options are ‘--help’ and ‘--version’. *Note Common
options::.
The ‘users’ command is installed only on platforms with the POSIX
‘’ include file or equivalent, so portable scripts should not
rely on its existence on non-POSIX platforms.
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
indicates failure.