FINGER(1) BSD Reference Manual FINGER(1) NNAAMMEE ffiinnggeerr - user information lookup program SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS ffiinnggeerr [--llmmsspp] [_u_s_e_r _._._.] [_u_s_e_r_@_h_o_s_t _._._.] DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN The ffiinnggeerr displays information about the system users. Options are: --ss FFiinnggeerr displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permis- sion is denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone number. Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and min- utes if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present. Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather than the hours and minutes. Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as single asterisks. --ll Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information de- scribed for the --ss option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login shell, and the contents of the files ``_._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'', ``_._p_l_a_n'' and ``_._p_r_o_j_e_c_t'' from the user's home di- rectory. If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is pre- sented in the form ``hh:mm''. Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''. Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN- NNN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate subset of that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''. If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name. One en- try per user is displayed with the --ll option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information is repeated once per login. --pp Prevents the --ll option of ffiinnggeerr from displaying the contents of the ``_._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'', ``_._p_l_a_n'' and ``_._p_r_o_j_e_c_t'' files. --mm Prevent matching of _u_s_e_r names. _U_s_e_r is usually a login name; how- ever, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the --mm option is supplied. All name matching performed by ffiinnggeerr is case insensitive. If no options are specified, ffiinnggeerr defaults to the --ll style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the --ss style. Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for them. If no arguments are specified, ffiinnggeerr will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system. FFiinnggeerr may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a _u_s_e_r as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default out- put format for the former is the --ll style, and the default output format for the latter is the --ss style. The --ll option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine. SSEEEE AALLSSOO chpass(1), w(1), who(1), HHIISSTTOORRYY The ffiinnggeerr command appeared in 3.0BSD. 4th Berkeley Distribution June 6, 1993 2