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 .project ®le in a long-format printout.
Force ``idle'' output format. Similar to short format except that only the login name, termi- nal, login time, and idle time are printed.
Force long output format.
Match arguments only on user name. Suppress printing of the .plan ®les
Force quick output format. Similar to short format except that only the login name, termi- nal, 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.

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®nger(1)

®nger(1)

NAME

®nger - user information lookup program

SYNOPSIS

finger [ options ] user_name ...

DESCRIPTION

By default, finger 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 ®le .plan in their home directory,

∙Project on which they are working from the ®le .project, also in the home directory,

∙of®ce 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 minutes if a : is present, or days and hours if a d is present. Account names as well as ®rst and last names of users are accepted.

finger 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 speci®ed, the remote system (HP-UX or non-HP-UX) uses its default standard format for listing user information.

Options

finger recognizes the following options:

-b -f -h -i

-l -m -p -q

-R -s -w

WARNINGS

Only the ®rst line of the .project ®le is printed.

AUTHOR

finger was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

who ®le

/etc/utmp

/var/adm/wtmp

last login ®le

/etc/passwd

for users names, of®ces, ...

Ä/.plan

plans

Ä/.project

projects

/var/mail

mail directory

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HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000