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    FINGER(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		FINGER(1)

    NAME
         finger - user information lookup program

    SYNOPSIS
         finger [ -lmsp ] [user [@host] ...]

    DESCRIPTION
         The finger command has two basic output formats providing
         essentially the same information.

         The -s option of finger displays the user's login name, real
         name, terminal name and write status (as a ``*'' after the
         terminal name if write permission is denied), idle time,
         login time, office location and office phone number.

         Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and
         minutes if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is
         present.  Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and
         minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the
         year is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.

         Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times
         are displayed as single asterisks.

         The -l option produces a multi-line format displaying all of
         the information described for the -s option as well as the
         user's home directory, home phone number, login shell, and
         the contents of the files ``.plan'' and ``.project'' from
         the user's home directory.

         If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
         presented in the form ``hh:mm''.  Idle times greater than a
         day are presented as ``d day[s] hh:mm''.

         Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as
         ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''.  Numbers specified as ten or seven
         digits are printed as the appropriate subset of that string.
         Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.

         If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase
         ``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the
         device name.  One entry per user is displayed with the -l
         option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal
         information is repeated once per login.

         The -p option prevents the -l option of finger from display-
         ing the contents of the ``.plan'' and ``.project'' files.

         Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if
         information is not available for them.

    Printed 11/24/99	  May 18, 1989				1

    FINGER(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		FINGER(1)

         If no operands are specified, finger will print an entry for
         each user currently logged into the system.  If no options
         are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if
         operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style.

         User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be
         done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is sup-
         plied.  All name matching performed by finger is case insen-
         sitive.

         Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
         The format is to specify a user as ``user@host'', or
         ``@host'', where the default output format for the former is
         the -l style, and the default output format for the latter
         is the -s style.  The -l option is the only option that may
         be passed to a remote machine.

    SEE ALSO
         chpass(1), w(1), who(1), getpwent(3)

    Printed 11/24/99	  May 18, 1989				2

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