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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),
• last time the user received the mail, and last time the user read the mail.
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 .Ifuser_name is not specified, the remote system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its
default standard format for listing user information.
Options
finger recognizes the following options:
-b Suppress printing the user’s home directory and shell.
-f Suppress printing the header that is normally printed in a short-format printout.
-h Suppress printing the .project file in a long-format printout.
-i Force ‘‘idle’’ output format. Similar to short format except that only the login name, ter-
minal, login time, and idle time are printed.
-l Force long output format.
-m Match arguments only on user name.
-p Suppress printing of the .plan files
-q Force quick output format. Similar to short format except that only the login name, ter-
minal, and login time are printed.
-R Print the user’s host name.
-s Force short output format.
-w Suppress printing the full name in a short-format printout.
WARNINGS
Only the first line of the
.project file is printed.
AUTHOR
finger was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/etc/utmps who file
/var/adm/wtmps last login file
/etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
˜/.plan plans
˜/.project projects
/var/mail mail directory
HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1

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