Using Who To Find What And When On Linux and Unix

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2008

“Today’s post is yet another in a somewhat disjointed series of
posts on ‘stuff you might not know and you might find interesting’
regarding very common commands. And they don’t get much more common
than the ‘who’ command.

“Generally, ‘who’ is used like the last command that we looked
at in our previous post. It’s generally issued at the command line
to determine who (yes, it’s not just a clever name 😉 is logged on
‘right now,’ if anyone is at all…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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