Annotation of src/usr.bin/finger/finger.1, Revision 1.1
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! 35: .Dd July 27, 1991
! 36: .Dt FINGER 1
! 37: .Os BSD 4
! 38: .Sh NAME
! 39: .Nm finger
! 40: .Nd user information lookup program
! 41: .Sh SYNOPSIS
! 42: .Nm finger
! 43: .Op Fl lmsp
! 44: .Op Ar user ...
! 45: .Op Ar user@host ...
! 46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
! 47: The
! 48: .Nm finger
! 49: displays information about the system users.
! 50: .Pp
! 51: Options are:
! 52: .Bl -tag -width flag
! 53: .It Fl s
! 54: .Nm Finger
! 55: displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
! 56: status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is
! 57: denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone
! 58: number.
! 59: .Pp
! 60: Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
! 61: if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present.
! 62: Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless
! 63: more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather
! 64: than the hours and minutes.
! 65: .Pp
! 66: Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
! 67: displayed as single asterisks.
! 68: .Pp
! 69: .It Fl l
! 70: Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information
! 71: described for the
! 72: .Fl s
! 73: option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login
! 74: shell, mail status, and the contents of the files
! 75: .Dq Pa .plan
! 76: and
! 77: .Dq Pa .project
! 78: from the user's home directory.
! 79: .Pp
! 80: If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
! 81: presented in the form ``hh:mm''.
! 82: Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''.
! 83: .Pp
! 84: Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''.
! 85: Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate
! 86: subset of that string.
! 87: Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
! 88: Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''.
! 89: .Pp
! 90: If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)''
! 91: is appended to the line containing the device name.
! 92: One entry per user is displayed with the
! 93: .Fl l
! 94: option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
! 95: is repeated once per login.
! 96: .Pp
! 97: Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all,
! 98: ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked
! 99: at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'',
! 100: `` Unread since ...'' if they have new mail.
! 101: .Pp
! 102: .It Fl p
! 103: Prevents
! 104: the
! 105: .Fl l
! 106: option of
! 107: .Nm finger
! 108: from displaying the contents of the
! 109: .Dq Pa .plan
! 110: and
! 111: .Dq Pa .project
! 112: files.
! 113: .It Fl m
! 114: Prevent matching of
! 115: .Ar user
! 116: names.
! 117: .Ar User
! 118: is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
! 119: users' real names, unless the
! 120: .Fl m
! 121: option is supplied.
! 122: All name matching performed by
! 123: .Nm finger
! 124: is case insensitive.
! 125: .El
! 126: .Pp
! 127: If no options are specified,
! 128: .Nm finger
! 129: defaults to the
! 130: .Fl l
! 131: style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
! 132: .Fl s
! 133: style.
! 134: Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
! 135: is not available for them.
! 136: .Pp
! 137: If no arguments are specified,
! 138: .Nm finger
! 139: will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
! 140: .Pp
! 141: .Nm Finger
! 142: may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
! 143: The format is to specify a
! 144: .Ar user
! 145: as
! 146: .Dq Li user@host ,
! 147: or
! 148: .Dq Li @host ,
! 149: where the default output
! 150: format for the former is the
! 151: .Fl l
! 152: style, and the default output format for the latter is the
! 153: .Fl s
! 154: style.
! 155: The
! 156: .Fl l
! 157: option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
! 158: .Sh SEE ALSO
! 159: .Xr chpass 1 ,
! 160: .Xr w 1 ,
! 161: .Xr who 1
! 162: .Sh HISTORY
! 163: The
! 164: .Nm finger
! 165: command appeared in
! 166: .Bx 3.0 .
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