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NAMEw —
display who is logged in and what they are doing
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTIONThew utility prints a summary of the current activity
on the system, including what each user is doing. The first line displays the
current time of day, how long the system has been running, the number of users
logged into the system, and the load averages. The load average numbers give
the number of jobs in the run queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
The fields output are the user's login name, the name of the terminal the user is on, the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user logged on, the time since the user last typed anything, and the name and arguments of the current process. The options are as follows:
If one or more user names are specified, the output is restricted to those users. FILES
EXAMPLESShow global activity of the system:$ w 8:05PM up 35 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.35, 0.27 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux) root v1 - 8:03PM 1 -bash (bash) fernape pts/0 tmux(1391).%0 8:04PM - w Show the entire process list per tty: $ w -d 8:12PM up 42 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.11, 0.17 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT 1199 login [pam] (login) 1207 -bash (bash) 1507 tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux) fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux) 1488 login [pam] (login) 1489 -bash (bash) root v1 - 8:08PM 3 -bash (bash) 1510 -bash (bash) 1515 w -d fernape pts/0 tmux(1509).%0 8:11PM - w -d Same as above but only for the root user and omitting the heading: $ w -d -h root 1183 login [pam] (login) 1204 -bash (bash) root v1 - 7:15PM - -bash (bash) COMPATIBILITYThe-f , -l ,
-s , and -w flags are no longer
supported.
SEE ALSOfinger(1), ps(1), uptime(1), who(1), libxo(3), xo_parse_args(3)HISTORYThew command appeared in
3.0BSD.
BUGSThe notion of the “current process” is muddy. The current algorithm is “the highest numbered process on the terminal that is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered process on the terminal”. This fails, for example, in critical sections of programs like the shell and editor, or when faulty programs running in the background fork and fail to ignore interrupts. (In cases where no process can be found,w prints ‘- ’.)
The CPU time is only an estimate, in particular, if someone leaves a background process running after logging out, the person currently on that terminal is “charged” with the time. Background processes are not shown, even though they account for much of the load on the system. Sometimes processes, typically those in the background, are printed with null or garbaged arguments. In these cases, the name of the command is printed in parentheses. The
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