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[1mNAME
     [0mfinger - user information lookup program

[1mSYNOPSIS
     finger [0m[ options ] name ...

[1mDESCRIPTION
     [0mBy 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:

     [1m-m   [0mMatch arguments only on user name.

     [1m-l   [0mForce long output format.

     [1m-p   [0mSuppress printing of the ._p_l_a_n files

     [1m-s   [0mForce short output format.

     The GCOS field of the passwd file is interpreted as up to
     four comma-separated fields.  Any of the fields may be omit-
     ted by giving two adjacent commas.  The first field is the
     user's full name.	If this contains an ampersand, `&', the
     usercode will be interpolated.  The second field is the
     user's office location.  The third and fourth are the user's
     office and home telephone numbers respectively.

[1mFILES
     [0m/etc/utmp		 who file
     /etc/passwd	 for users names, offices, ...
     /var/adm/lastlog	 last login times
     ~/.plan		 plans



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     ~/.project          projects

[1mSEE ALSO
     [0mchfn(1), w(1), who(1), fingerd(8)

[1mAUTHOR
     [0mEarl T. Cohen

[1mBUGS
     [0mOnly the first line of the ._p_r_o_j_e_c_t file is printed.

     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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