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                      4: .\"
                      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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