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4     ffiinnggeerr - user information lookup program
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7     ffiinnggeerr [--llmmsspp] [_u_s_e_r ...] [_u_s_e_r@_h_o_s_t ...]
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10     The ffiinnggeerr displays information about the system users.
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12     Options are:
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14     --ss    FFiinnggeerr displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and
15           write status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write
16           permission is denied), idle time, login time, office location and
17           office phone number.
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19           Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and
20           minutes if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present.
21           Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless
22           more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed
23           rather than the hours and minutes.
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25           Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
26           displayed as single asterisks.
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28     --ll    Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information
29           described for the --ss option as well as the user's home directory,
30           home phone number, login shell, and the contents of the files
31           ``._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'', ``._p_l_a_n'' and ``._p_r_o_j_e_c_t'' from the user's home
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34           If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
35           presented in the form ``hh:mm''.  Idle times greater than a day are
36           presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''.
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38           Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-
39           NNN-NNNN''.  Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed
40           as the appropriate subset of that string.  Numbers specified as
41           five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
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43           If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages
44           off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name.  One
45           entry per user is displayed with the --ll option; if a user is logged
46           on multiple times, terminal information is repeated once per login.
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48     --pp    Prevents the --ll option of ffiinnggeerr from displaying the contents of
49           the ``._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'', ``._p_l_a_n'' and ``._p_r_o_j_e_c_t'' files.
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51     --mm    Prevent matching of _u_s_e_r names.  _U_s_e_r is usually a login name;
52           however, matching will also be done on the users' real names,
53           unless the --mm option is supplied.  All name matching performed by
54           ffiinnggeerr is case insensitive.
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56     If no options are specified, ffiinnggeerr defaults to the --ll style output if
57     operands are provided, otherwise to the --ss style.  Note that some fields
58     may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for
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61     If no arguments are specified, ffiinnggeerr will print an entry for each user
62     currently logged into the system.
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64     FFiinnggeerr may be used to look up users on a remote machine.  The format is
65     to specify a _u_s_e_r as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default
66     output format for the former is the --ll style, and the default output
67     format for the latter is the --ss style.  The --ll option is the only option
68     that may be passed to a remote machine.
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71     chpass(1),  w(1),  who(1),
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74     The ffiinnggeerr command appeared in 3.0BSD.
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764th Berkeley Distribution        July 27, 1991                               2
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