go-what

README

go-what

A Golang conversion of mit-pdos/what

What?

go-what is an improved version of the w tool. It finds all processes associated with a TTY (not just those registered in wtmp), and reports all users that are running anything. In particular, unlike w, go-what will also show things running in detached screens/tmuxen.

Build

Working on Linux (and systems that provide a Linux-compatible procfs, same as the original Python implementation):

env GOTOOLCHAIN="$(grep '^go .*$' go.mod | tr -cd 'go0-9.\n')+auto" \
  GOFLAGS="-ldflags=-s -w" CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -v -trimpath

Documentation

Overview

go-what