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NAME
       last - report recent logins

SYNOPSIS
       last [ userid ... ] [ terminal ]

DESCRIPTION
       Last  reports  logins  and logouts in reverse chronological order.  Op‐
       tional arguments restrict attention to selected userids  or  terminals.
       Terminals ‘tty0, tty1, ...' may be abbreviated ‘0, 1, ...'

       Last  reports  userid, terminal, time on, and time off.  A pseudo-user,
       ‘reboot', logs in at reboots of the system, thus

              last reboot

       reports recent reboots.

       Upon interrupt, last tells how far back it has looked; upon quit  (con‐
       trol-\) it tells how far and keeps on looking.

FILES
       /usr/adm/wtmp       login data base

SEE ALSO
       who(1), wtmp(5), ac(8)

BUGS
       Because the accounting file does not distinguish orderly shutdowns from
       crashes, neither does last.

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