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finger

List of commands for finger:

  • finger:tldr:0632a finger: Display information about a specific user.
    $ finger ${user}@${host}
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  • finger:tldr:412e4 finger: Prevent matching against user's names and only use login names.
    $ finger -m
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  • finger:tldr:449ab finger: Display information in a longer format.
    $ finger ${user}@${host} -l
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  • finger:tldr:4cd31 finger: Display information about all users on the specified host.
    $ finger @${host}
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  • finger:tldr:c3102 finger: Display help information.
    $ finger /?
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  • finger:tldr:ce47e finger: Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name, and other information.
    $ finger -s
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  • finger:tldr:dad43 finger: Produce multiline output format displaying same information as `-s` as well as user's home directory, home phone number, login shell, mail status, etc..
    $ finger -l
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  • finger:tldr:e7efd finger: Display information about currently logged in users.
    $ finger
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  • finger:tldr:f8a1c finger: Display information about a specific user.
    $ finger ${username}
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