Hi, I've been using unix at college for a few weeks now and I have come up against a few stumbling blocks:
- Most unix commands seem to work w/ regexps - the computers I and my group are allowed to logon to are all itsunXX where XX is a number. if I can {finger @itsun88} to find out that I and... (1 Reply)
is there a way to show information on all the users on your system? when i use 'finger' is only shows users names and info who are currently on the system. is there a way to show all accounts? thanx! (5 Replies)
Hey, I was wondering If anybody knew of a way to make a log of all users who type the command finger username when username is my own.
I would like to see who is keeping track of me :)
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX)
Kind of:
#!/usr/bin/sh
USER=mylogin
finger $USER
if $? = 0
then
echo "EXIST""
else
echo "DOES NOT EXIST"
fi (10 Replies)
Hi,
iam using sunsolaris.
when you type finger command -- it dispalys information about local and remote users.
but here it shows as can't stat /dev/gold:8664
can anybody help what is the solution for this error.
previously the output came.
thanks,
shan (1 Reply)
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. (2 Replies)
I want to know the correct version of how i should use the finger command in this example below.(os is debian lenny)
(nymserver.pl is located in /home/nymserv directory.)
the two versions are :
(in/etc/inetd.conf)
finger stream tcp nowait nymuser /usr/nym/nymserv nymserv... (3 Replies)
Two things : On the first place i am really desperate, on the second i am about to throw my laptop away to the recycle bin in a while.
Ok now that i expressed my feeling let me describe you this mad situation.
Code:
print $1;
("finger -m " $1 "| head -1") | getline userinfo
print... (6 Replies)
Hi
Does anyone know if there is anyway of doing the finger command for all user id's in my enviroment. What I need to obtain is the full names of all users on the system.
I know if i do the finger command with no arguments it will list users currently logged in, but i need all users...
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: m3y
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
finger
FINGER(1) General Commands Manual FINGER(1)NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [ -lmsp ] [user [@host] ...]
DESCRIPTION
The finger command has two basic output formats providing essentially the same information.
The -s option of finger displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if
write permission is denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone number.
Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present. Login time is
displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather than the hours and
minutes.
Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as single asterisks.
The -l option produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information described for the -s option as well as the user's home direc-
tory, home phone number, login shell, and the contents of the files ``.plan'' and ``.project'' from the user's home directory.
If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is presented in the form ``hh:mm''. Idle times greater than a day are presented
as ``d day[s] hh:mm''.
Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the
appropriate subset of that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name. One entry
per user is displayed with the -l option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information is repeated once per login.
The -p option prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of the ``.plan'' and ``.project'' files.
Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for them.
If no operands are specified, finger will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system. If no options are specified, fin-
ger defaults to the -l style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style.
User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied. All name
matching performed by finger is case insensitive.
Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a user as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default
output format for the former is the -l style, and the default output format for the latter is the -s style. The -l option is the only
option that may be passed to a remote machine.
SEE ALSO chpass(1), w(1), who(1), getpwent(3)4th Berkeley Distribution May 18, 1989 FINGER(1)