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1.1     ! root        1: .TH FINGER 1 "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: finger \- user information lookup program
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B finger
        !             7: [
        !             8: options
        !             9: ] name ...
        !            10: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            11: By default
        !            12: .I finger
        !            13: lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status
        !            14: (as a '*' before the terminal name if write permission is denied),
        !            15: idle time, login time, and office location and phone number
        !            16: (if they are known) for each current UNIX user.
        !            17: (Idle time is minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':'
        !            18: is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: A longer format also exists and is used by
        !            21: .I finger
        !            22: whenever a list of peoples names is given.  (Account names as well as
        !            23: first and last names of users are accepted.)
        !            24: This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above
        !            25: as well as the user's home
        !            26: directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file
        !            27: .I \&.plan
        !            28: in their home
        !            29: directory, and the project on which they are working from the file
        !            30: .I \&.project
        !            31: also in the home directory.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: .I Finger
        !            34: options include:
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: .B \-m
        !            37: Match arguments only on user name.
        !            38: .TP
        !            39: .B \-l
        !            40: Force long output format.
        !            41: .TP
        !            42: .B \-p
        !            43: Suppress printing of the
        !            44: .I \&.plan
        !            45: files
        !            46: .TP
        !            47: .B \-s
        !            48: Force short output format.
        !            49: .SH FILES
        !            50: .ta 2i
        !            51: /etc/utmp      who file
        !            52: .br
        !            53: /etc/passwd    for users names, offices, ...
        !            54: .br
        !            55: /usr/adm/lastlog       last login times
        !            56: .br
        !            57: ~/.plan        plans
        !            58: .br
        !            59: ~/.project     projects
        !            60: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            61: w(1), who(1)
        !            62: .SH AUTHOR
        !            63: Earl T. Cohen
        !            64: .SH BUGS
        !            65: Only the first line of the
        !            66: .I .project
        !            67: file is printed.
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: A user information data base is in the works and will radically alter
        !            70: the way the information that
        !            71: .I finger
        !            72: uses is stored.  Finger will require extensive modification when
        !            73: this is implemented.

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