3BSD/usr/man/man1/finger.1

.TH FINGER 1
.UC
.SH NAME
finger \- user information lookup program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B finger
[
options
] name ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
By default
.I finger
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.)
.PP
A longer format also exists and is used by
.I finger
whenever a list of peoples 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
.I \&.plan
in their home
directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
.I \&.project
also in the home directory.
.PP
.I Finger
options include:
.TP
.B \-f
Suppress the printing of the header line (short format).
.TP
.B \-l
Force long output format.
.TP
.B \-p
Suppress printing of the
.I \&.plan
files
.TP
.B \-s
Force short output format.
.SH FILES
.ta 2i
/etc/utmp	who file
.br
/etc/passwd	for users names, offices, phones, directories and shells
.br
/usr/adm/lastlog	last login times
.br
~/.plan	plans
.br
~/.project	projects
.SH "SEE ALSO"
w(1), who(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Earl T. Cohen
.SH BUGS
Only the first line of the
.I .project
file is printed.
.PP
The encoding of the gecos field is UCB dependent \- it knows that an office
`197MC' is `197M Cory Hall', and tht `529BE' is `529B Evans Hall'.