NAME

     finger - user information lookup program


SYNOPSIS

     finger [ options ] name ...


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,  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 file .project also in the home directory.

     Finger may be used to lookup 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
     /etc/passwd         for users names, offices, ...
     /usr/adm/lastlog    last login times
     ~/.plan             plans
     ~/.project          projects


SEE ALSO

     chfn(1), w(1), who(1).


AUTHOR

     Earl T. Cohen


BUGS

     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.