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.\" @(#)finger.1 6.8 (Berkeley) %G%
finger \- user information lookup program
command has two basic output formats providing essentially the same
displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permission is
denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone
Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
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.
option produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information
option as well as the user's home directory, login shell, and the
from the user's home directory.
If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
presented in the form ``hh:mm''.
Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s] hh:mm''.
If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages
off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name.
One entry per user is displayed with the
option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
is repeated once per login.
from displaying the contents of the ``.plan'' and ``.project''
Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
is not available for them.
If no operands are specified,
will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
If no options are specified,
style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
users' real names, unless the
All name matching performed by
may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
The format is to specify a
as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default output
format for the former is the
style, and the default output format for the latter is the
option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
chpass(1), w(1), who(1), getpwent(3)