From 1b0f334f949ffc89a08c07fa5ca423bb8aa1a6c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Earl T. Cohen" Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1979 05:29:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] BSD 3 development Work on file usr/man/man1/finger.1 Synthesized-from: 3bsd --- usr/man/man1/finger.1 | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usr/man/man1/finger.1 diff --git a/usr/man/man1/finger.1 b/usr/man/man1/finger.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..17fb294477 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/man/man1/finger.1 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.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'. -- 2.20.1