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2.\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
3.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
4.\"
5.\" @(#)finger.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 5/10/86
6.\"
7.TH FINGER 1 "May 10, 1986"
8.UC 4
9.SH NAME
10finger \- user information lookup program
11.SH SYNOPSIS
12.B finger
13[
14options
15] name ...
16.SH DESCRIPTION
17By default
18.B finger
19lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status
20(as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied),
21idle time, login time, and office location and phone number
22(if they are known) for each current UNIX user.
23(Idle time is minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':'
24is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
25.PP
26A longer format also exists and is used by
27.B finger
28whenever a list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as
29first and last names of users are accepted.)
30This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above
31as well as the user's home
32directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file
33.B \&.plan
34in their home
35directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
36.B \&.project
37also in the home directory.
38.PP
39.B Finger
40may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The format is to specify
41the user as ``user@host.'' If the user name is left off, the
42standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
43.PP
44.B Finger
45options include:
46.TP
47.B \-m
48Match arguments only on user name.
49.TP
50.B \-l
51Force long output format.
52.TP
53.B \-p
54Suppress printing of the
55.B \&.plan
56files
57.TP
58.B \-s
59Force short output format.
60.SH FILES
61.ta 2i
62/etc/utmp who file
63.br
64/etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
65.br
66/usr/adm/lastlog last login times
67.br
68~/.plan plans
69.br
70~/.project projects
71.SH "SEE ALSO"
72.BR chfn (1),
73.BR w (1),
74.BR who (1).
75.SH AUTHOR
76Earl T. Cohen
77.SH BUGS
78Only the first line of the
79.B .project
80file is printed.
81.PP
82There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
83.B finger
84uses an internet standard port.
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