Finger displays the user's login name, real name, ter-minal name and write status (as a ``'' after the termi-nal name if write permission is denied), idle time,login time, office location and office phone number.Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and min-utes, unless more than six months ago, in which casethe year is displayed rather than the hours and min-utes.Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and logintimes are displayed as single asterisks.-lProduces a multi-line format displaying all of theinformation described for the -s option as well as theuser's home directory, home phone number, login shell,mail status, and the contents of the files ``.plan'', ``.project'', ``.pgpkey'' and ``.forward'' from the user's home directory.
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Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as
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``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as ten or seven
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digits are printed as the appropriate subset of that string.
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Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
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Numbers specified as four digits are printed as
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``xNNNN''.
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If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase
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``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the
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device name. One entry per user is displayed with the -l
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option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal
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information is repeated once per login.
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Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at
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all, ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the
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person has looked at their mailbox since new mail arriving,
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or ``New mail received ...'', `` Unread since ...'' if they
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have new mail.
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Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the
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contents of the ``.plan'', ``.project''
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and ``.pgpkey'' files.
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Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login
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name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real
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names, unless the -m option is supplied. All name matching
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performed by finger is case insensi- tive.
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If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style
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output if operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style.
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Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if
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information is not available for them.
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If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry
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for each user currently logged into the system.
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Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The
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format is to specify a user as ``user@host'', or
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``@host'', where the default output format for the
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former is the -l style, and the default output format for
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the latter is the -s style. The -l option is the only option
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that may be passed to a remote machine.
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If standard output is a socket, finger will emit a carriage
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return (^M) before every linefeed (^J). This is for process-
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ing remote finger requests when invoked by
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fingerd(8).
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__FILES__
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~/.nofinger
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If finger finds this file in a user's home directory, it
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will, for finger requests originating outside the local
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host, firmly deny the existence of that user. For this to
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work, the finger program, as started by fingerd(8),
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must be able to see the .nofinger file. This
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must have the other-users-execute bit set (o+x). See
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chmod(1). If you use this feature for privacy,
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please test it with ``finger @localhost'' before relying on
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it, just in case.
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~/.plan
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These files are printed as part of a long-format request.
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