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pinky

PINKY(1)								FSF								  PINKY(1)

NAME

       pinky - lightweight finger

SYNOPSIS

       pinky [OPTION]... [USER]...

DESCRIPTION

       -l     produce long format output for the specified USERs

       -b     omit the user's home directory and shell in long format

       -h     omit the user's project file in long format

       -p     omit the user's plan file in long format

       -s     do short format output, this is the default

       -f     omit the line of column headings in short format

       -w     omit the user's full name in short format

       -i     omit the user's full name and remote host in short format

       -q     omit the user's full name, remote host and idle time in short format

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       A lightweight `finger' program;	print user information.  The utmp file will be /var/run/utmp.

AUTHOR

       Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for pinky is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and pinky programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info pinky

       should give you access to the complete manual.

pinky (coreutils) 4.5.3 					   February 2003							  PINKY(1)