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NAME

       finger - user information lookup program

SYNOPSIS

       finger [ options ] name ...

DESCRIPTION

       By default finger lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is
       denied), idle time, login time, and office location and phone number (if they are known) for each current UNIX user.  (Idle time is minutes
       if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':' is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)

       A  longer  format  also	exists and is used by finger whenever a list of people's names is given.  (Account names as well as first and last
       names of users are accepted.)  This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above  as  well  as  the  user's  home
       directory  and  login  shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file .plan in their home directory, and the project on which they
       are working from the file .project also in the home directory.

       Finger may be used to lookup users on a remote machine.	The format is to specify the user as ``user@host.''  If the user name is left off,
       the standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.

       Finger options include:

       -m     Match arguments only on user name.

       -l     Force long output format.

       -p     Suppress printing of the .plan files

       -s     Force short output format.

FILES

       /etc/utmp	   who file
       /etc/passwd	   for users names, offices, ...
       /usr/adm/lastlog    last login times
       ~/.plan		   plans
       ~/.project	   projects

SEE ALSO

       chfn(1), w(1), who(1).

AUTHOR

       Earl T. Cohen

BUGS

       Only the first line of the .project file is printed.

       There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as finger uses an internet standard port.

4th Berkeley Distribution					   May 10, 1986 							 FINGER(1)