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5 .\" @(#)finger.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 5/10/86
7 .TH FINGER 1 "May 10, 1986"
10 finger \- user information lookup program
19 lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status
20 (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied),
21 idle 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 ':'
24 is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
26 A longer format also exists and is used by
28 whenever a list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as
29 first and last names of users are accepted.)
30 This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above
31 as well as the user's home
32 directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file
35 directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
37 also in the home directory.
40 may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The format is to specify
41 the user as ``user@host.'' If the user name is left off, the
42 standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
48 Match arguments only on user name.
51 Force long output format.
54 Suppress printing of the
59 Force short output format.
64 /etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
66 /usr/adm/lastlog last login times
78 Only the first line of the
82 There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
84 uses an internet standard port.