# finger(1)

    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.