4.3BSD-Tahoe/usr/man/cat1/finger.0

FINGER(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		FINGER(1)



NNAAMMEE
     finger - user information lookup program

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
     ffiinnggeerr [ options ] name ...

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.)

     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.

     _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.

     _F_i_n_g_e_r options include:

     --mm   Match arguments only on user name.

     --ll   Force long output format.

     --pp   Suppress printing of the ._p_l_a_n files

     --ss   Force short output format.

FFIILLEESS
     /etc/utmp		 who file
     /etc/passwd	 for users names, offices, ...
     /usr/adm/lastlog	 last login times
     ~/.plan		 plans
     ~/.project          projects

SSEEEE AALLSSOO
     chfn(1), w(1), who(1)

AAUUTTHHOORR
     Earl T. Cohen




Printed 7/9/88		  May 10, 1986				1






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BBUUGGSS
     Only the first line of the ._p_r_o_j_e_c_t file is printed.

     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.

     There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
     _f_i_n_g_e_r uses an internet standard port.

     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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