February 14, 2021 in Tutorial2 minutes
In this tutorial we learn how to use users
command in Linux. users
command print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host.
users [OPTION]... [FILE]
We can pass a file to be read by users command. By default users command will read file /var/run/utmp
.
users
vagrant
We can also pass the utmp file to users command and the output will be the same.
users /var/run/utmp
vagrant
We can use man
and info
command to see the manual page of users
command.
users
command also have --help
option to show list of options.
man page of the users
command can be opened using the command below. To exit man or info page you can press q
.
man users
info page for users
command can be opened using the command below.
info users
To open help page from users
command we can run command below.
users --help
You can find users
command source code from the folowing repositories:
You can read tutorials of related Linux commands below:
In this tutorial we learn how to use users
in Linux with practical examples. Visit our Linux Commands guide to learn more about using command line interface in Linux.