Finger

The Finger Command

By default, finger will list the login name, full name, terminal name, and write status

(shown as a “*” before the terminal name if write permission is denied), idle time, login

time, office location, and phone number (if known) for each current user connected to the

network.

Syntax

finger [-l] [User] [@host] [...]

Switches:

-b Brief output format

-f Supresses the printing of the header line.

-i Provides a quick list of users with idle time.

-l Forces long output format.

-p Supresses printing of the .plan file (if present)

-q Provides a quick list of users.

-s Forces short output form.

-w Forces narrow output form.

Examples

To display information for user1 on the computer users.microsoft.com, type the following command:

finger user1@users.microsoft.com

To display information for all users on the computer users.microsoft.com, type the following command:

finger @users.microsoft.com