finger(1)finger(1)NAMEfinger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
[options] user_name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default, 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 in their home directory,
· Project on which they are working from the file 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 min‐
utes if a is present, or days and hours if a is present. Account names
as well as first and last names of users are accepted.
can also be used to list users on a remote machine. The format for
user_name is user_name@host. If user_name is not specified, the remote
system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for list‐
ing user information.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Suppress printing the user's home directory and shell.
Suppress printing the header that is normally printed
in a short-format printout.
Suppress printing the
file in a long-format printout.
Force ``idle'' output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login
name, terminal, login time, and idle time are printed.
Force long output format.
Match arguments only on user name.
Suppress printing of the
files
Force quick output format.
Similar to short format except that only the login
name, terminal, and login time are printed.
Print the user's host name.
Force short output format.
Suppress printing the full name in a short-format printout.
WARNINGS
Only the first line of the file is printed.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
who file
last login file
for users names, offices, ...
plans
projects
mail directory
SEE ALSOchfn(1), who(1), utmpd(1M).
finger(1)
