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PINKY

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 2026
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NAME

pinky - lightweight finger  

SYNOPSIS

pinky [,OPTION/]... [,USER/]...  

DESCRIPTION

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-l'-lX'tty: link'

produce long format output for the specified USERs

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-b'-bX'tty: link'

omit the user's home directory and shell in long format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-h'-hX'tty: link'

omit the user's project file in long format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-p'-pX'tty: link'

omit the user's plan file in long format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-s'-sX'tty: link'

do short format output, this is the default

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-f'-fX'tty: link'

omit the line of column headings in short format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-w'-wX'tty: link'

omit the user's full name in short format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-i'-iX'tty: link'

omit the user's full name and remote host in short format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-q'-qX'tty: link'

omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#pink-lookup'--lookupX'tty: link'

attempt to canonicalize hostnames via DNS

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pinky#pink-help'--helpX'tty: link'

display this help and exit

X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pinky#pink-version'--versionX'tty: link'

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

Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org

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

SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pinky>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) pinky invocationaq

Packaged by Gentoo (9.10 (p0))
Copyright © 2026 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.

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