FINGER(C)                XENIX System V                 FINGER(C)



     Name
          finger - Finds information about users.

     Syntax
          finger [ -bfilpqsw ] [login1 [login2 ...] ]

     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,
          office location, and phone number (if they are known) for
          each current XENIX user.  (Idle time is minutes if it is a
          single integer, hours and minutes if a colon (:) 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 names is given. (Account names as well as first and
          last names of users are accepted.) This is a multiline
          format; it 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 which is also in the home directory.

          finger options are:

          -b   Briefer long output format of users.

          -f   Suppresses the printing of the header line (short
               format).

          -i   Quick list of users with idle times.

          -l   Forces long output format.

          -p   Suppresses printing of the .plan files.

          -q   Quick list of users.

          -s   Forces short output format.

          -w   Forces narrow format list of specified users.

     Files
          /etc/utmp           Who file

          /etc/passwd         User names, offices, phones,
                              login directories, and shells

          $HOME/.plan         Plans

          $HOME/.project      Projects



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     See Also
          who(C)

     Credit
          This utility was developed at the University of California
          at Berkeley and is used with permission.

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

          Entries in the /etc/passwd file have the following format:

               login name:user password(coded):user ID:group ID:comments:home
               directory:login shell

          The comment field corresponds to configurable columns in the
          finger output.  For example, in the following /etc/passwd
          entry:

               blf:Tg6bLFzOwgfbA:47:5:Brian Foster, Mission, x70, 767-1234
               :/u/blf:/bin/shV

          the comment field, contains data for the and columns of the
          finger listings.

          Idle time is computed as the elapsed time since any activity
          on the given terminal.  This includes previous invocations
          of finger which may have modified the terminal's
          corresponding device file /dev/tty??.


























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