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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
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        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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        !             5: .\"    @(#)finger.1    6.4 (Berkeley) 5/10/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH FINGER 1 "May 10, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: finger \- user information lookup program
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B finger
        !            13: [
        !            14: options
        !            15: ] name ...
        !            16: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            17: By default
        !            18: .I finger
        !            19: lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status
        !            20: (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied),
        !            21: idle time, login time, and office location and phone number
        !            22: (if they are known) for each current UNIX user.
        !            23: (Idle time is minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':'
        !            24: is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: A longer format also exists and is used by
        !            27: .I finger
        !            28: whenever a list of people's names is given.  (Account names as well as
        !            29: first and last names of users are accepted.)
        !            30: This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above
        !            31: as well as the user's home
        !            32: directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file
        !            33: .I \&.plan
        !            34: in their home
        !            35: directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
        !            36: .I \&.project
        !            37: also in the home directory.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: .I Finger
        !            40: may be used to lookup users on a remote machine.  The format is to specify
        !            41: the user as ``user@host.''  If the user name is left off, the
        !            42: standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
        !            43: .PP
        !            44: .I Finger
        !            45: options include:
        !            46: .TP
        !            47: .B \-m
        !            48: Match arguments only on user name.
        !            49: .TP
        !            50: .B \-l
        !            51: Force long output format.
        !            52: .TP
        !            53: .B \-p
        !            54: Suppress printing of the
        !            55: .I \&.plan
        !            56: files
        !            57: .TP
        !            58: .B \-s
        !            59: Force short output format.
        !            60: .SH FILES
        !            61: .ta 2i
        !            62: /etc/utmp      who file
        !            63: .br
        !            64: /etc/passwd    for users names, offices, ...
        !            65: .br
        !            66: /usr/adm/lastlog       last login times
        !            67: .br
        !            68: ~/.plan        plans
        !            69: .br
        !            70: ~/.project     projects
        !            71: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            72: chfn(1), w(1), who(1)
        !            73: .SH AUTHOR
        !            74: Earl T. Cohen
        !            75: .SH BUGS
        !            76: Only the first line of the
        !            77: .I .project
        !            78: file is printed.
        !            79: .PP
        !            80: The encoding of the gcos field is UCB dependent \- it knows that an office
        !            81: `197MC' is `197M Cory Hall', and that `529BE' is `529B Evans Hall'.
        !            82: It also knows that a four digit office phone number should have a ``x2-''
        !            83: prepended.
        !            84: .PP
        !            85: There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as
        !            86: .I finger
        !            87: uses an internet standard port.
        !            88: .PP
        !            89: A user information data base is in the works and will radically alter
        !            90: the way the information that
        !            91: .I finger
        !            92: uses is stored.  Finger will require extensive modification when
        !            93: this is implemented.

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