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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:
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Generate output via libxo(3) in a selection of different human and machine readable formats. See xo_parse_args(3) for details on command line arguments. | |
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dumps out the entire process list on a per controlling tty basis, instead of just the top level process. | |
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Suppress the heading. | |
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Output is sorted by idle time. | |
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Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem. | |
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Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default /boot/kernel/kernel. | |
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Do not attempt to resolve network addresses (normally
w
interprets addresses and attempts to display them as names).
When
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If one or more user names are specified, the output is restricted to those users.
/var/run/utx.active | |
list of users on the system | |
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 w utility does not know about the new conventions for detection of background jobs. It will sometimes find a background job instead of the right one.
W (1) | December 1, 2015 |
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