| 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
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| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
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| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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| 4 | .\"
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| 5 | .\" @(#)finger.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 5/10/86
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| 6 | .\"
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| 7 | .TH FINGER 1 "May 10, 1986"
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| 8 | .UC 4
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| 9 | .SH NAME
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| 10 | finger \- user information lookup program
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| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 12 | .B finger
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| 13 | [
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| 14 | options
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| 15 | ] name ...
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| 16 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 17 | By default
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| 18 | .B finger
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| 19 | lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status
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| 20 | (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied),
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| 21 | idle time, login time, and office location and phone number
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| 22 | (if they are known) for each current UNIX user.
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| 23 | (Idle time is minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':'
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| 24 | is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
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| 25 | .PP
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| 26 | A longer format also exists and is used by
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| 27 | .B finger
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| 28 | whenever a list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as
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| 29 | first and last names of users are accepted.)
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| 30 | This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above
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| 31 | as well as the user's home
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| 32 | directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file
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| 33 | .B \&.plan
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| 34 | in their home
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| 35 | directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
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| 36 | .B \&.project
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| 37 | also in the home directory.
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| 38 | .PP
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| 39 | .B Finger
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| 40 | may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The format is to specify
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| 41 | the user as ``user@host.'' If the user name is left off, the
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| 42 | standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
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| 43 | .PP
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| 44 | .B Finger
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| 45 | options include:
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| 46 | .TP
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| 47 | .B \-m
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| 48 | Match arguments only on user name.
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| 49 | .TP
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| 50 | .B \-l
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| 51 | Force long output format.
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| 52 | .TP
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| 53 | .B \-p
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| 54 | Suppress printing of the
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| 55 | .B \&.plan
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| 56 | files
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| 57 | .TP
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| 58 | .B \-s
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| 59 | Force short output format.
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| 60 | .SH FILES
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| 61 | .ta 2i
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| 62 | /etc/utmp who file
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| 63 | .br
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| 64 | /etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
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| 65 | .br
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| 66 | /usr/adm/lastlog last login times
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| 67 | .br
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| 68 | ~/.plan plans
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| 69 | .br
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| 70 | ~/.project projects
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| 71 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 72 | .BR chfn (1),
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| 73 | .BR w (1),
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| 74 | .BR who (1).
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| 75 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 76 | Earl T. Cohen
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| 77 | .SH BUGS
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| 78 | Only the first line of the
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| 79 | .B .project
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| 80 | file is printed.
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| 81 | .PP
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| 82 | There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
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| 83 | .B finger
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| 84 | uses an internet standard port.
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