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Add small example section showing general use and -d and -h flags Approved by: manpages (bcr@) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26172
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.\" @(#)w.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 24, 2020
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.Dt W 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm w
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.Nd "display who is logged in and what they are doing"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl -libxo
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.Op Fl dhin
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.Op Fl M Ar core
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.Op Fl N Ar system
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.Op Ar user ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility prints a summary of the current activity on the system,
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including what each user is doing.
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The first line displays the current time of day, how long the system has
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been running, the number of users logged into the system, and the load
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averages.
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The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
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over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
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.Pp
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The fields output are the user's login name, the name of the terminal the
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user is on, the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user
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logged on, the time since the user last typed anything,
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and the name and arguments of the current process.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl -libxo
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Generate output via
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.Xr libxo 3
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in a selection of different human and machine readable formats.
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See
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.Xr xo_parse_args 3
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for details on command line arguments.
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.It Fl d
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dumps out the entire process list on a per controlling
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tty basis, instead of just the top level process.
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.It Fl h
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Suppress the heading.
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.It Fl i
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Output is sorted by idle time.
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.It Fl M
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Extract values associated with the name list from the specified
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core instead of the default
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.Pa /dev/kmem .
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.It Fl N
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Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the
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default
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.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel .
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.It Fl n
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Do not attempt to resolve network addresses (normally
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.Nm
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interprets addresses and attempts to display them as names).
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When
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.Fl n
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is specified more than once, hostnames stored in utmp are attempted to
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resolve to display them as network addresses.
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.El
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.Pp
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If one or more
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.Ar user
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names are specified, the output is restricted to those users.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/utx.active" -compact
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.It Pa /var/run/utx.active
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list of users on the system
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Show global activity of the system:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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$ w
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8:05PM up 35 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.35, 0.27
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USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
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fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux)
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root v1 - 8:03PM 1 -bash (bash)
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fernape pts/0 tmux(1391).%0 8:04PM - w
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Show the entire process list per tty:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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$ w -d
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8:12PM up 42 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.11, 0.17
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USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
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1199 login [pam] (login)
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1207 -bash (bash)
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1507 tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux)
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fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux)
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1488 login [pam] (login)
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1489 -bash (bash)
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root v1 - 8:08PM 3 -bash (bash)
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1510 -bash (bash)
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1515 w -d
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fernape pts/0 tmux(1509).%0 8:11PM - w -d
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Same as above but only for the root user and omitting the heading:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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$ w -d -h root
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1183 login [pam] (login)
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1204 -bash (bash)
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root v1 - 7:15PM - -bash (bash)
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.Ed
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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The
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.Fl f ,
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.Fl l ,
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.Fl s ,
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and
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.Fl w
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flags are no longer supported.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr finger 1 ,
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.Xr ps 1 ,
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.Xr uptime 1 ,
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.Xr who 1 ,
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.Xr libxo 3 ,
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.Xr xo_parse_args 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 3.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The notion of the
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.Dq current process
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is muddy.
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The current algorithm is
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.Do
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the highest numbered process on the terminal
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that is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered
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process on the terminal
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.Dc .
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This fails, for example, in critical sections of programs like the shell
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and editor, or when faulty programs running in the background fork and fail
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to ignore interrupts.
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(In cases where no process can be found,
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.Nm
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prints
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.Ql \- . )
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.Pp
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The CPU time is only an estimate, in particular, if someone leaves a background
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process running after logging out, the person currently on that terminal is
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.Dq charged
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with the time.
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.Pp
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Background processes are not shown, even though they account for
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much of the load on the system.
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.Pp
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Sometimes processes, typically those in the background, are printed with
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null or garbaged arguments.
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In these cases, the name of the command is printed in parentheses.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility does not know about the new conventions for detection of background
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jobs.
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It will sometimes find a background job instead of the right one.
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