| FINGER(1) | General Commands Manual | FINGER(1) | 
finger —
| finger | [ -8ghlmops] [user ...]
      [user@host ...] | 
finger utility displays information about the system
  users.
Options are:
-8-g-h-s option, the
      name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office location and
      office phone.-l-s option as well as the user's home
      directory, home phone number, login shell, mail status, and the contents
      of the files “.forward”,
      “.plan” and
      “.project” from the user's home
      directory.
    If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is presented in the form “hh:mm”. Idle times greater than a day are presented as “d day[s]hh:mm”.
Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as “+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN”. Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate subset of that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as “xN-NNNN”. Numbers specified as four digits are printed as “xNNNN”.
If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase
        “(messages off)” is appended to the line containing the
        device name. One entry per user is displayed with the
        -l option; if a user is logged on multiple
        times, terminal information is repeated once per login.
Mail status is shown as “No Mail.” if there is no mail at all, ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or “New mail received ...”, “Unread since ...” if they have new mail.
-m-m option is supplied. All name matching performed
      by finger is case insensitive.-o-s option, the
      office location and office phone information is displayed. This is the
      default.-p-l option of
      finger from displaying the contents of the
      “.forward”,
      “.plan” and
      “.project” files.-sfinger displays the user's login name, real name,
      terminal name and write status (as a “*” after the terminal
      name if write permission is denied), idle time, login time, and either
      office location and office phone number, or the remote host. If
      -h is given, the remote is printed. If
      -o is given, the office location and phone number
      is printed instead (the default).
    Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a “:” is present, or days if a “d” is present. Login time is displayed as the dayname if less than six days, else month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.
Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as single asterisks.
If no options are specified, finger
    defaults to the -l style output if operands are
    provided, otherwise to the -s style. Note that some
    fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for
    them.
If no arguments are specified, finger will
    print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
The finger utility may be used to look up
    users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a
    user as
    “user@host”, or
    “@host”, where the default output
    format for the former is the -l style, and the
    default output format for the latter is the -s
    style. The -l option is the only option that may be
    passed to a remote machine.
utmpx file.lastlogx file.utmp file.lastlog file.finger command appeared in
  2.0BSD:
  ftp://ftp.tuhs.org.ua/PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2bsd.tar.gz
| May 7, 2020 | NetBSD 9.4 |