Name
finger
Synopsis
Provides information about a user on a remote system.
Syntax
finger [-l] [username
]@computername
[...]
Options
-
-l
Verbose output.
-
[
username
]
@computername
The user you want to
finger
on the remote system—that is, the user about whom you want to obtain information. Ifusername
is omitted, thenfinger
obtains information concerning all users on the remote system.
Examples
In general, the output to the finger
command will
depend on the system being queried. For example, here are the
instructions displayed when using finger
on a
hypothetical Unix host at university BlahBlah.edu and the results of
fingering a user named mitch:
finger help@blahblah.edu
[blahblah.edu]
Welcome to the finger daemon at blahblah.edu! By default, the finger command
displays in multi-column format the following information about each logged-in
user:
o User Name
o Nickname, you can use this to send to
nickname_lastname@blahblah.edu.
o The send_email_to field is the address to use
to send this person email.
o Campus address
o Campus phone
o Project
We don't show login info, or idle time since these ids never actually login,
this is a client-server system.
Different types of queries:
alias/netid lookup - finger jwh2@blahblah.edu
name lookup - finger howell@blahblah.edu
finger jim@blahblah.edu
If you get a message that says “Too many returns for your query” then you will have to refine your query:
finger mitch@blahblah.edu
[blahblah.edu] Information from BlahBlah's Network Identity Directory... ----------------------------------------------------- ...
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