NAME

finger − display information about users

SYNOPSIS

finger [ options ] username ...

DESCRIPTION

finger displays information about each named user, including his or her:

login name,
full name,
terminal name (prepended with a ‘∗’ if write-permission is denied),
idle time,
login time,
office location, and
phone number

if known.
A
username
may be a first and last name, or an account name.

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.

Information is presented in a multi-line format, and may
include the user’s home directory and login shell, any plan
contained in the file
.plan
in the user’s home directory, and a project on which they are
working described in the file
.project
(also in that directory).

If a
username
argument contains an at-sign, “@”, then a connection
is attempted to the machine named after the at-sign, and the remote
finger daemon is queried.

OPTIONS

−m Match arguments only on username. 

−l Force long output format. 

−p Suppress printing of the .plan files

−s Force short output format. 

FILES

/etc/utmp who is logged in

/etc/passwd for users names

/usr/adm/lastlog last login times

~/.plan plans

~/.project projects

SEE ALSO

w(1), who(1), whois(1)

BUGS

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

Sun Release 3.2  —  Last change: April 29, 1985