Administrative/System

FINGER

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finger without any parameters displays information about all logged in users.
finger -h provides the same information except the Office Location and Phone are replaced by the remote host
finger username provides detailed information about the users whose login = username and whose Full Name contains the string username
finger -m usernameprovides detailed information about the users whose login = username.

The variations in display format are shown below:

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FreeBSD
finger

Login	Name	TTY	Idle	Login	Time	Office	Phone
Joe	Joe Whosit	*v1	1:11	Wed	20:44	location	###-####
Jeff	Jeff Whatsit	*v0		Wed	20:44	location	###-####

finger joe

Login : joe	Name : joe whosit
Directory : /home/joe	Shell : /bin/sh
Office : joe's office location, Office Phone	Home Phone : xxx-xxx-xxxx
Last Login Wed Jan 21 20:43 (EST) on ttyv0
No Mail
No Plan

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OpenBSD
finger

Login	Name	TTY	Idle	Login Time	Office	Phone
Joe	Joe Whosit	*c1	-	Wed 20:44	location	###-####
Jeff	Jeff Whatsit	p1	2	Wed 20:44	location	###-####

finger joe

Login : joe	Name : joe whosit
Directory : /home/joe	Shell : /bin/sh
Office : joe's office location, office phone	Home Phone : xxx-xxx-xxxx
On Since Wed Jan 21 20:43 (EST) on ttyv0
No Mail
No Plan

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NetBSD
finger

Login	Name	TTY	Idle	Login	Time	Office	Phone
Joe	Joe Whosit	*co	-	Wed	20:44	location	###-####

finger joe

Login : joe	Name : joe whosit
Directory : /home/joe	Shell : /bin/sh
Office : joe's office location, office phone	Home Phone : xxx-xxx-xxxx
Last Login Wed Jan 21 20:43 (EST) on ttyv0
No Mail
No Plan

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Linux
finger

Login	Name	TTY	Idle	Login	Time	Office	Phone
Joe	Joe Whosit	tty1		Wed	20:44	location	###-####
Jeff	Jeff Whatsit	pts/0	1:20	Wed	20:44	(server)

finger joe

Login : joe	Name : joe whosit
Directory : /home/joe	Shell : /bin/sh
Office : joe's office location, office phone	Home Phone : xxx-xxx-xxxx
On Since Wed Jan 21 20:43 (EST) on tty1
Mail last read Sat Jan 24 04:31 2004 (EST)
No Plan

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