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NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [-lmsp] [user ...] [user@host ...]
DESCRIPTION
The finger displays information about the system users.
Options are:
-l Produces a multi-line format displaying the user's login name, real
name, the user's home directory, home phone number, login shell,
and the contents of the files `.forward', `.plan' and `.project'
from the user's home directory.
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'.
-p Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of
the `.forward', `.plan' and `.project' files.
-m Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name; how
ever, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless
the -m option is supplied. All name matching performed by finger
is case insensitive.
If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if
operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style. Note that some fields
may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for
them.
If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry for each user
currently logged into the system.
Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is
to specify a user as `user@host', or `@host', where the default output
format for the former is the -l style, and the default output format for
the latter is the -s style. The -l option is the only option that may be
passed to a remote machine.
SEE ALSO
in.fingerd
HISTORY
The finger command appeared in 3.0BSD.