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1 | .TH FINGER 1 |
2 | .UC | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
4 | finger \- user information lookup program | |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
6 | .B finger | |
7 | [ | |
8 | options | |
9 | ] name ... | |
10 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
11 | By default | |
12 | .I finger | |
13 | lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status | |
14 | (as a '*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied), | |
15 | idle time, login time, and office location and phone number | |
16 | (if they are known) for each current UNIX user. | |
17 | (Idle time is minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':' | |
18 | is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.) | |
19 | .PP | |
20 | A longer format also exists and is used by | |
21 | .I finger | |
22 | whenever a list of peoples names is given. (Account names as well as | |
23 | first and last names of users are accepted.) | |
24 | This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above | |
25 | as well as the user's home | |
26 | directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file | |
27 | .I \&.plan | |
28 | in their home | |
29 | directory, and the project on which they are working from the file | |
30 | .I \&.project | |
31 | also in the home directory. | |
32 | .PP | |
33 | .I Finger | |
34 | options include: | |
35 | .TP | |
36 | .B \-f | |
37 | Suppress the printing of the header line (short format). | |
38 | .TP | |
39 | .B \-l | |
40 | Force long output format. | |
41 | .TP | |
42 | .B \-p | |
43 | Suppress printing of the | |
44 | .I \&.plan | |
45 | files | |
46 | .TP | |
47 | .B \-s | |
48 | Force short output format. | |
49 | .SH FILES | |
50 | .ta 2i | |
51 | /etc/utmp who file | |
52 | .br | |
53 | /etc/passwd for users names, offices, phones, directories and shells | |
54 | .br | |
55 | /usr/adm/lastlog last login times | |
56 | .br | |
57 | ~/.plan plans | |
58 | .br | |
59 | ~/.project projects | |
60 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
61 | w(1), who(1) | |
62 | .SH AUTHOR | |
63 | Earl T. Cohen | |
64 | .SH BUGS | |
65 | Only the first line of the | |
66 | .I .project | |
67 | file is printed. | |
68 | .PP | |
69 | The encoding of the gecos field is UCB dependent \- it knows that an office | |
70 | `197MC' is `197M Cory Hall', and tht `529BE' is `529B Evans Hall'. |