FINGER(TC)                                 UNIX System V



     Name
          finger - User information look-up program


     Syntax
          finger [ options ] name ...


     Description
          By default, finger lists the login name, full name, terminal
          name  and  write status (as an * before the terminal name if
          write permission is denied), idle  time,  log-in  time,  and
          office  location  and  phone  number (if they are known) for
          each current UNIX user.  (Idle time is minutes if  it  is  a
          single integer, hours and minutes if a : 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 people's names is given.  (Account names as well as
          first and last names of users are accepted.) This format  is
          multi-line, and 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 .project file, also in the home directory.

          finger may be used to look up users  on  a  remote  machine.
          The format is to specify the user as user@host.  If the user
          name is left off, the standard format listing is provided on
          the remote machine.

          finger options include:

          -m   Match arguments only on user name.

          -l   Force long output format.

          -p   Suppress printing of the .plan files

          -s   Force short output format.


     Files
          /etc/utmp           who file (current users)
          /etc/wtmp           who file (past logins)
          /etc/passwd         for users names, offices, ...
          $HOME/.lastlogin    last log-in information
          $HOME/.plan         plans
          $HOME/.project      projects


     See Also
          who(C), fingerd(ADMN)


     Notes
          Only the first line of the .project file is printed.
          There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine,  as
          finger uses an internet standard port.


     (printed 8/17/89)                                  FINGER(TC)