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- FINGER User Commands FINGER
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- NNAAMMEE
- finger - user information lookup program
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- SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
- ffiinnggeerr [ options ] name ...
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- By default _f_i_n_g_e_r lists the login name, full name, terminal
- name and write status (as a `*' before the terminal name if
- write permission is denied), idle time, login time, and
- office location and phone number (if they are known) for
- each current UNIX user. (Idle time is minutes if it is a
- single integer, hours and minutes if a ':' is present, or
- days and hours if a 'd' is present.) By default, only one
- entry per user (with the least idle time) is printed.
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- A longer format also exists and is used by _f_i_n_g_e_r whenever a
- list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as
- first and last names of users are accepted.) This format is
- multi-line, and includes all the information described above
- as well as the user's home directory and login shell, any
- plan which the person has placed in the file ._p_l_a_n in their
- home directory, and the project on which they are working
- from the file ._p_r_o_j_e_c_t also in the home directory.
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- _F_i_n_g_e_r may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The
- format is to specify the user as ``user@host.'' If the user
- name is left off, the standard format listing is provided on
- the remote machine.
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- _F_i_n_g_e_r options include:
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- --mm Match arguments only on user name.
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- --ll Force long output format.
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- --pp Suppress printing of the ._p_l_a_n files
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- --ss Force short output format.
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- --aa Print all entries for logged-in users rather than the
- entry with the least idle time for each user.
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- FFIILLEESS
- /etc/utmp who file
- /etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
- /usr/adm/lastlog last login times
- ~/.plan plans
- ~/.project projects
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- chfn(1), w(1), who(1)
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- AAUUTTHHOORR
- Earl T. Cohen
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- BBUUGGSS
- Only the first line of the ._p_r_o_j_e_c_t file is printed.
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- The encoding of the gcos field is UCB dependent - it knows
- that an office `197MC' is `197M Cory Hall', and that `529BE'
- is `529B Evans Hall'. It also knows that a four digit
- office phone number should have a ``x2-'' prepended.
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- There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
- _f_i_n_g_e_r uses an internet standard port.
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- A user information data base is in the works and will radi-
- cally alter the way the information that _f_i_n_g_e_r uses is
- stored. Finger will require extensive modification when
- this is implemented.
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- SSPPRRIITTEE FFEEAATTUURREESS
- Specifying the pseudo-user "=ps" will perform a ps on the
- specified machine. Specifying the pseudo-user "=rup" will
- perform a rup on the specified machine. Specifying the
- pseudo-user "=all" will perform a finger -a on the specified
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