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Using "users" command gets my name 2 times?

rated 0 times [ 7] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 967 / 2 Years ago, thu, december 2, 2021, 1:00:45

I was looking for some shell commands, and I took a look in "users" command.

I was hoping to get only 1 name, but I got 2:

nori@nori-hidamari:~$ users

nori nori

And when I run the command "who"

nori@nori-hidamari:~$ who

nori     :0           2015-04-09 09:31 (:0)

nori     pts/0        2015-04-09 09:48 (:0)

Is this behaviour normal? Or it's bad?

Thank you guys for helping me.

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answered 2 Years ago eaderitable · Accepted Answer

This is normal expected behaviour.

You see your user name twice because you are logged in twice.

[simmel]@[mars]$ users

simmel simmel

The second command

who

shows which user is online right now and it looks like you were online at that time with Graphical Display :0 and pts/0 (a terminal window).

[simmel]@[mars]$ who

simmel   tty8         2015-03-30 11:15 (:0)

simmel   pts/3        2015-04-09 14:16 (:0)

After opening some more terminals it looks like this:

[simmel]@[mars]$ who

simmel   tty8         2015-03-30 11:15 (:0)

simmel   pts/3        2015-04-09 14:16 (:0)

simmel   pts/4        2015-04-09 14:54 (:0)

simmel   pts/8        2015-04-09 14:54 (:0)

After opening more windows the count goes up in users:

[simmel]@[mars]$ users

simmel simmel simmel simmel