finger

felixwhoals · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Is there any possible way to get rid of the header when I do finger ?

I want to get rid of
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone
as the header.

Please let me know how to do it.

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Using tail or awk, perhaps?

finger | tail +2

or

finger | awk 'NR>1'

EDIT
Or using the -f switch!! Solaris finger will "Suppresses printing the header that is normally printed in a non-long format printout."

felixwhoals · #3 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

How does finger | tail +2 work?
It gives me an error.
I don't want to use awk, I want to try and use finger and supress the heading.

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