NAME

finger − user information lookup program

SYNOPSIS

finger [options] user_name ...

DESCRIPTION

By default, finger lists for each user_name on the system:

• Login name,

• Full given name,

• Terminal write status (if write permission is denied),

• Idle time,

• Login time,

• User’s home directory and login shell,

• Any plan the user has placed in file .plan in their home directory,

• Project on which they are working from the file .project, also in the home directory,

• office location and phone number (if known). 

Idle time is in minutes if listed as a single integer, hours and minutes if a : is present, or days and hours if a d is present.  Account names as well as first and last names of users are accepted. 

finger can also be used to list users on a remote machine.  The format for user_name is user_name@host.  If user_name is not specified, the remote system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for listing user information. 

Options

−m Match arguments only on user name. 

−l Force long output format. 

−p Suppress printing of the .plan files

−s Force short output format. 

−R Print the user’s host name. 

WARNINGS

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

AUTHOR

finger was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. 

FILES

/etc/utmp who file

/etc/wtmp last login file

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

~/.plan plans

~/.project projects

SEE ALSO

who(1). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991