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      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
           peoples  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 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
           w(1), who(1)

      AUTHOR
           Earl T. Cohen

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

           The encoding of the gcos field is UCB dependent - it knows  that  an
           office  `197MC' is `197M Cory Hall', and that `529BE' is `529B Evans
           Hall'.




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           A user information data base is in  the  works  and  will  radically
           alter  the  way  the information that finger uses is stored.  Finger
           will require extensive modification when this is implemented.




















































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