The pinky command is used to display information about users on a system. Which provides information on the login name, user ID, login shell and/or home directory of users specified.
- About pinky: It a lighweight finger program
- Comes From: coreutils-8.4
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/pinky
Examples:
1. To display the information about the users
| # pinky |
2. To produce the long format output
| # pinky -l |
3. To omit the userâs home directory and shell in long format
| # pinky -b |
4. To omit the user’s project file in long format
| # pinky -h |
5. To omit the userâs plan file in long format
| # pinky -p |
6. To do short format output, this is the default
| # pinky -s |
7. To omit the line of column headings in short format
| # pinky -f |
8. To omit the userâs full name in short format
| # pinky -w |
9. To omit the user’s full name and remote host in short format
| # pinky -i |
10. To omit the users full name, remote host and idle time in short format
| # pinky -q |
11. To display the help
| # pinky –help |
12. To get the version info
| # pinky –version |
