FINGER(C)                            UNIX System V



     Name
          finger - finds information about users


     Syntax
          finger [ -bfilpqsw ] [login1 [login2 ...] ]


     Description
          By default finger lists the login name, full name,  terminal
          name  and  write status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name
          if write permission  is  denied),  idle  time,  login  time,
          office  location,  and  phone number (if they are known) for
          each current user.  (Idle time is minutes if it is a  single
          integer,  hours  and  minutes if a colon (:)  is present, or
          days and hours if a ``d'' is present.)

          A longer format also exists and is used by finger whenever a
          list  of names is given. (Account names as well as first and
          last names of users are  accepted.)   This  is  a  multiline
          format;  it  includes all the information described above as
          well as the user's home directory and login shell, any  plan
          which  the person has placed in the file .plan in their home
          directory, and the project on which they  are  working  from
          the file .project which is also in the home directory.

          finger options are:

          -b   Briefer long output format of users.

          -f   Suppresses the  printing  of  the  header  line  (short
               format).

          -i   Quick list of users with idle times.

          -l   Forces long output format.

          -p   Suppresses printing of the .plan files.

          -q   Quick list of users.

          -s   Forces short output format.

          -w   Forces narrow format list of specified users.


     Files
          /etc/utmp Who file
          /etc/passwd    User names, offices, phones, login directories, and shells
          $HOME/.plan    Plans
          $HOME/.project Projects


     See Also
          who(C), w(C)


     Credit
          This utility was developed at the University  of  California
          at Berkeley and is used with permission.


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

          Entries in the /etc/passwd file have the following format:

               login name:user password(coded):user ID:group ID:comments:home
               directory:login shell

          The comment field corresponds to what appears in the  finger
          output.  For example, in the following /etc/passwd entry:

          blf:*:47:5:Brian Foster, Mission, x70, 767-1234
          :/u/blf:/bin/sh

          the comment field, contains data for the and columns of  the
          finger listings.

          Idle time is computed as the elapsed time since any activity
          on  the  given terminal.  This includes previous invocations
          of  finger  which   may   have   modified   the   terminal's
          corresponding device file /dev/tty??.


     (printed 2/15/90)                                  FINGER(C)