07-03-2008
no it shouldn't take long either. you can omit running in verbose mode. by the way, whats the system you're using and what OS?
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pinky
PINKY(1) User Commands PINKY(1)
NAME
pinky - lightweight finger
SYNOPSIS
pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...
DESCRIPTION
-l produce long format output for the specified USERs
-b omit the user's home directory and shell in long format
-h omit the user's project file in long format
-p omit the user's plan file in long format
-s do short format output, this is the default
-f omit the line of column headings in short format
-w omit the user's full name in short format
-i omit the user's full name and remote host in short format
-q omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
A lightweight `finger' program; print user information. The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp.
AUTHOR
Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for pinky is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pinky programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info pinky
should give you access to the complete manual.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+--------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+--------------------+
|Availability | SUNWgnu-coreutils |
+--------------------+--------------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+--------------------+
NOTES
Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.
pinky 6.7 December 2006 PINKY(1)