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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.
-