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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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