Top Document: Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ Previous Document: ... 2.1 How to Finger Next Document: ... ... 2.1.2 Using a Web Browser to Finger See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge To finger someone finger UserID@fully.qualified.domain.name On some systems finger is linked to f so the following also works: f UserID@fqdn Finger displays different information on different systems. Often it will display your full name, your default shell, when your were last logged on, and your ~/.plan and ~/.project files. If you finger someone and the display takes more than one page you can pipe the output through less (or more if you don't have less). For example to find out about Halcyon, my Internet service provider, type: finger info@halcyon.com |less Finger can also be used to display information about groups of people. For example: finger john@random.fqdn |less Ths will display finger information about everyone with ``john'' in their name on random.fqdn. You can get a short listing for each person by using: finger -q john@random.fqdn |less For technical details about the finger protocol see RFC1288. User Contributions:Top Document: Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ Previous Document: ... 2.1 How to Finger Next Document: ... ... 2.1.2 Using a Web Browser to Finger Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: FAQ Editor <faq-editor@ii.com>
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