finger(1)                                               finger(1)



     NAME
          finger - user information lookup program

     SYNOPSIS
          finger [-m] [-l] [-p] [-s] 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 Oreo® 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 that 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 flag 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
          /usr/ucb/finger

          /etc/utmp          who file

          /etc/passwd        for users names, offices, . . .

          /usr/adm/lastlog   last login times

          ~/.plan            plans

          ~/.project         projects

     SEE ALSO
          w(1), who(1), passwd(5).  Only the first line of the
          .project file is printed.





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