SYNOPSIS

       w [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -s ] [ -u ] [ -w ] [ user ]

DESCRIPTION

       W  prints  a  summary  of the current activity on the system, including
       what each user is doing.  The heading line shows the  current  time  of
       day,  how  long the system has been up, the number of users logged into
       the system, and the load averages.  The load average numbers  give  the
       number of jobs in the run queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

       The  fields  output  are: the users login name, the name of the tty the
       user is on, the time of day the user logged on, the number  of  minutes
       since  the user last typed anything, the CPU time used by all processes
       and their children on that terminal, the CPU time used by the currently
       active processes, the name and arguments of the current process.

       If a user name is given, the output will be restricted to that user.

       The w command accepts the following options:

       -h     Omit the heading.

       -l     Long output format, which is the default.

       -s     Selects  a short form of output that abbreviates the tty, leaves
              off the login time and cpu times, as the arguments to  commands.

       -u     Prints the first line of the heading only.

       -w     Long output format, which is the default.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       LANG, LC_ALL
              See locale(7).

       LC_CTYPE
              Determines the set of printable characters when printing command
              lines.

FILES

       /proc  list of processes

       /var/run/utmp
              list of active logins

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), uptime(1), who(1), whodo(1), proc(5), utmp(5)



Heirloom Toolchest                 10/19/03                               W(1)