FINGER(LOCAL)

NAME
finger, whois, - Who is on the system.

SYNOPSIS
finger [-DIMPSTlmpw] [-i[hh:]mm] [*] [.] [username]

DESCRIPTION
finger will display users that are currently on the system with some useful information. The format of finger, with examples, are shown below:
-Name- -Group- --Full Name--        -What- Idle  -TTY- -Loc-
ag     wheel   Keith Gabryelski     emacs        tty02 window2
                                    ksh    1     tty04 window4
root   root    The root of all evil sh     15:26*tty01 window1
tyg    user    Marla Gabryelski     ksh    3:18  tty10 window10
In the above example:
    User `ag' is logged on twice. One on tty02 running emacs with no idle time and also on tty04 at a korn shell prompt with a 1 minute idle time. User `ag' is group wheel and his real name is "Keith Gabryelski". root is logged in on tty01 at a Bounre shell prompt with an idle time of 15 hours and 26 minutes. root's is not receiving messages (denoted by the asterisk by the tty name). tyg (Marla Gabryelski) is logged in on tty10 at a ksh prompt with an idle time of 3 hours and 18 minutes.
whois displays users that are currently on the system with some in depth information about the users. The format of whois, with examples, are shown below:
-Name- -Group- --Full Name--        -What- Idle  -TTY- -Console-
ag     wheel   Keith Gabryelski     emacs        tty02 window2
                                    ksh    9     tty04 window4
(Keith) </u/ag> Hacking finger and other system commands.
[100, 50] [/bin/ksh] Birthday June 14
Home 10191 Maya Linda Rd. Apt 51; Phone 619 566-2279
Work Elgar Corporation; 9450 Brown Deer Rd.  San Diego;
Phone 619 458-0210
[ag has had no mail since Sat Aug  6 16:17:36 1988]
    Tigger's don't climb trees.
Plan:
to 'ag'gravate the world...
root   root    The root of all evil sh     15:34*tty01 window1
(root-boy) </> Hacking your id into shreads for I am uid 0!
[0, 0] [/bin/sh]
[root has had no mail since Fri Aug  5 10:55:16 1988]
tyg    user    Marla Gabryelski     ksh    3:25  tty10 window10
(tyg) </u/tyg> Hacking Mah Jongg for the fun of it.
[99, 51] [/bin/ksh] Birthday January 11
Home 10191 Maya Linda Rd. Apt 51; Phone 566-2279
Work is boring, so I'm never there.;
[tyg has had no mail since Thu Jul 14 23:00:26 1988]
    The wonderful thing about Tiggers
    are Tiggers are wonderful things.
    Their tops are made out of rubber.
    Their bottoms are made of of springs.
    They're bouncey trouncey bouncey trouncey
    FUN!  FUN!  FUN!  FUN!  FUN!
    The wonderful thing about tiggers is ...
	    I'm the only one!

	A. A. Milne
    The format is obvious. I shall not explain it.

OPTIONS
Output of finger can be formated by the following options:

-D  This options is only valid on SCO Xenix systems. Finger (and whois) will not usually display a port that is used as a DIALOUT. This options will display DIALOUT lines if there are any currently are in use.

-I  Sort by idle time. From least to longest idle time. -S is implicitly specified with this option.

-M  Force no display of mailbox info.

-P  Force no display of plan.

-S  Show repeated user names on output.

-T  Sort by tty. -S is implicitly specified with this option.

-l  Long output. Like whois without mailbox and plan info.

-m  Display mailbox info if available.

-p  Display plan if available.

-w  Do a whois. Like doing a finger -lmp

-i[[hh:]mm]
    Don't show users with idle times greater than `hh' hours and `mm' minutes. Deault is 30 minutes (:30).

*   Show all users in the data base.

.   Show current user (yourself).

username
    Show username whether logged in or not.

FILES
~/.plan				The plan.
/usr/lib/finger/dbase/*		database information for whois.
/usr/lib/finger/nlist		nlist for quick access to the kernel.

SEE ALSO
bwiz(1), inquire(1), ttyloc(1), watson(1)

AUTHOR

    Keith M. Gabryelski (ag@elgar.UUCP)