.TH finger "" "" "Command"
.PC "Look up information about a user"
\fBfinger [ \fIoptions\fB ] \fIuser ...\fR
.PP
By default finger displays the login name, full name,
terminal name, and write status (producing an asterisk (*)
before the terminal name if write permission is denied), idle time,
login time, and office location, and telephone number (if known)
for each user.
(Idle time is displayed in minutes if a single integer is given,
hours and minutes with a colon `:',
or days and hours if
.I d
is given.)
.PP
A longer format is used when a list of people's names is given.
(Account names as well as first and last names of users are accepted.)
This format is multiline, and includes all the information described
above as well as the user's home directory, login shell,
and login universe, any plan
the user has placed in the file
.B .plan
in his
.B $HOME
directory, and the project on which the user is working from the file
.BR .project ,
also in the
.B $HOME
directory.
.SH "Command-line Options"
.B finger
recognizes the following command-line options:
.IP \fB\-m\fR
Match arguments only on user name.
.IP \fB\-l\fR
Force long output format.
.IP \fB\-p\fR
Suppress printing of the .plan files.
.IP \fB\-s\fR
Force short output format.
.IP \fB\-w\fR
Wide output format.
.IP \fB\-q\fR
Give quick list of users providing login name, tty
name, and login time only.
.IP \fB\-i\fR
Give quick list with idle times.
.IP \fB\-b\fR
Use default options.
.IP \fB\-f\fR
Suppress printing of headers on all options.
.IP \fB\-h\fR
List project information from ~user/.project.
.PP
The default options are
.IP \fB\-b\fR ,
.IP \fB\-f\fR ,
.IP \fB\-h\fR ,
.IP \fB\-m\fR ,
.IP \fB\-p\fR ,
.IP \fB\-q\fR ,
and
.BR \-w .
.SH Files
.nf
\fB/etc/utmp\fR \(em who file
\fB/etc/passwd\fR \(em For users names, offices, ...
\fB/usr/adm/lastlog\fR \(em Last login times
.SH "See Also"
.B
commands,
who
.R
.SH Notes
.II "Cohen, Earl T."
.B finger
was written Earl T. Cohen.
