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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] Finger command Post 302888700 by stew on Monday 17th of February 2014 12:12:14 AM
Old 02-17-2014
Thanks Don.

I want to write report for last logon user detials.

Code:
The below user id wre34 is not an active user from Sep 2013. his last logon Aug 7 2013
 
Directory: /export/home/wre34           Shell: /bin/ksh
Last login Wed Aug  7, 2013 on pts/111
No unread mail
No Plan.
 
The other user id ivv41 las logon was Sep 21 2013
 
Directory: /export/home/ivv41           Shell: /bin/ksh
Last login Mon Sep 23 17:28 on pts/47 from remb02mkiwsf25
Mail last read Sat Sep 21 15:13:31 2013
No Plan
 
current usr id
 
Directory: /export/home/por12           Shell: /bin/ksh
On since Feb 17 15:26:40 on pts/75 
Mail last read Sat Feb  1 15:25:28 2014
No Plan.

If I use finger userid |grep On Since

I would get month date time and year but login time was more than 6 months ago will not display.
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags to mark sample input, sample output, and sample code. I have added CODE and ICODE tags to this post, but I am not at all sure that I put the CODE tags in the right spots. (I don't know if there should be one sample output or three sample outputs.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-17-2014 at 01:37 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
 

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FINGER(1)						      General Commands Manual							 FINGER(1)

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)
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