FINGER(1) | General Commands Manual | FINGER(1) |
finger
—
finger |
[-8ghlmops ] [user ...]
[user@host ...] |
finger
utility displays information about the system
users.
Options are:
-8
-g
-h
-s
option, the
name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office location and
office phone.-l
-s
option as well as the user's home
directory, home phone number, login shell, mail status, and the contents
of the files “.forward”,
“.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”. Numbers specified as four digits are printed as “xNNNN”.
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.
Mail status is shown as “No Mail.” if there is no mail at all, ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or “New mail received ...”, “Unread since ...” if they have new mail.
-m
-m
option is supplied. All name matching performed
by finger
is case insensitive.-o
-s
option, the
office location and office phone information is displayed. This is the
default.-p
-l
option of
finger
from displaying the contents of the
“.forward”,
“.plan” and
“.project” files.-s
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, and either
office location and office phone number, or the remote host. If
-h
is given, the remote is printed. If
-o
is given, the office location and phone number
is printed instead (the default).
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 the dayname if less than six days, else 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.
If no options are specified, finger
defaults to the -l
style output if operands are
provided, otherwise to the -s
style. Note that some
fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for
them.
If no arguments are specified, finger
will
print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
The finger
utility 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.
utmpx
file.lastlogx
file.utmp
file.lastlog
file.finger
command appeared in
2.0BSD:
ftp://ftp.tuhs.org.ua/PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2bsd.tar.gz
May 7, 2020 | NetBSD 9.4 |