Questions tagged [w]

Question 1

When running GNU emacs in a terminal (in the old-fashioned way, that is, i.e. not in its X windows mode) I've noticed that the w command shows the session as idle, even though emacs is active and ...

Question 2

I'm working remotely on an embedded device running Buildroot. My colleagues are working on this same device, so it's important to know who else is logged in. For a previous project (running on a non-...

Question 3

I want to parse the output of w so I can collect current user sessions and record them via telegraf. However, it only provides space separated output and I'm not sure how to reliably parse this ...

Question 4

On a normal working Linux machine the command w report 2 users(because 2 users are connected) w 19:23:19 up 1:53, 2 users, load average: 0,44, 0,63, 0,81 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ ...

Question 5

I have a script in linux: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:1 value=$(</home/pace/Desktop/BODVersion.txt) cd $value gnome-terminal \ --tab -t "CTCLManager" -e " sh -c 'sleep 1s; ./startapp ...

Question 6

In command line platforms online, like for instance the one on Codecademy, when I run for cmd in w who whoami id do echo $cmd $cmd echo ========================= echo " " ...

Question 7

Consider I have created a user 'test' during Installation which I use to login to my system. My root user is 'root'. I further open two terminal sessions for each of the users respectively. Now the ...

Question 8

If I open terminal and execute w command then it will show: user tty7 :0 12:04 39:56 36.87s 0.06s /sbin/upstart - Now if open terminator or xterm and execute w command then it ...

Question 9

This is the code I desire to decipher: w | cut -d " " -f 1 - | grep -v USER | sort -u

Question 10

I logged into a server as root and did w, this let me see that a user was editing a file. someuser pts/5 10.117.0.53 14:03 3:25 1.20s 1.14s vi somefile.py Then I disconnected, and ...

Question 11

If I do a w, I can see that a user is editing a certain file in vi. However there are several files with the same name in different directories. How do I see which of these files is the one that the ...

Question 12

The command w said 02:50:35 up 20:54, 10 users, load average: 1,07, 1,29, 1,41 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT myuser :0 - lun05 ?xdm? 1:...

Question 13

I run w command on two machines. They both have exactly the same system installed: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-87-generic x86_64). I am logged in as hans on both machines through SSH. machine ...

Question 14

I am in a Linux/Unix Systems class and I need to determine commands I can use to determine who is logged in on a specific terminal? I know there is the w, who, or finger commands. Do any of these ...

Question 15

In a RHEL 7.3 server, I was trying to find logged-in users. I ran w and it told me there were two users, but it only showed me the info of one (myself); then I ran who, which displayed the other user ...

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Questions tagged [w]

Idle time (tty st_atime) not updating when emacs is running

`w` not working on Buildroot

How can I parse the output of w to collect current user sessions?

Why don't my wtmp/utmp reset the user count?

How to hide script from process list in Linux?

Different outputs for `w`, `who`, `whoami` and `id`

Seeing user two times

w command doesn't show all pseudo-terminal sessions

What does a w | cut -d " " -f 1 - with a grep and sort should do?

How to see what a user is doing in their ssh session

How to see which file a user is editing in vi

who and w report my user ten times..but I have only four pts open

Inconsistent behavior of `w` command concerning `WHAT` column

Commands I can use to determine who is logged in on a specific terminal?

who shows (unknown) user logged-in: what's going on?

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