NAME
finger — user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger
[options]
user_name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default,
finger
lists for each
user_name
on the system:
Terminal write status (if write permission is denied),
User's home directory and login shell,
Any plan the user has placed in file
.plan
in their home directory,
Project on which they are working from the file
.project,
also in the home directory,
office location and phone number (if known),
last time the user received the mail, and last time
the user read the mail.
Idle time is in minutes if listed as a single integer,
hours and minutes if a
:
is present, or days and hours if a
d
is present.
Account names as well as first and last names of users are accepted.
finger
can also be used to list users on a remote machine.
The format for
user_name
is
user_name@host.
If
user_name
is not specified, the remote system (HP-UX
or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for listing user information.
Options
finger
recognizes the following options:
- -b
Suppress printing the user's home directory and shell.
- -f
Suppress printing the header that is normally printed
in a short-format printout.
- -h
Suppress printing the
.project
file in a long-format printout.
- -i
Force ``idle'' output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name,
terminal, login time, and idle time are printed.
- -l
Force long output format.
- -m
Match arguments only on user name.
- -p
Suppress printing of the
.plan
files
- -q
Force quick output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login name,
terminal, and login time are printed.
- -R
Print the user's host name.
- -s
Force short output format.
- -w
Suppress printing the full name in a short-format printout.
WARNINGS
Only the first line of the
.project
file is printed.
AUTHOR
finger
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
- /etc/utmps
who file
- /var/adm/wtmps
last login file
- /etc/passwd
for users names, offices, ...
- ~/.plan
plans
- ~/.project
projects
- /var/mail
mail directory
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