NAME
     finger - user information lookup program

SYNOPSIS
     finger [-lmsp] [user ...] [user@host ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The finger displays information about the system users.

     Options are:

     -l    Produces a multi-line format displaying the user's login name, real
           name, the user's home directory, home phone number, login shell,
           and the contents of the files `.forward', `.plan' and `.project'
           from the user's home directory.

           Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as `+N-NNN-
           NNN-NNNN'.  Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed
           as the appropriate subset of that string.  Numbers specified as
           five digits are printed as `xN-NNNN'.

     -p    Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of
           the `.forward', `.plan' and `.project' files.

     -m    Prevent matching of user names.  User is usually a login name; how­
           ever, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless
           the -m option is supplied.  All name matching performed by finger
           is case insensitive.

     If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if
     operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style.  Note that some fields
     may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for
     them.

     If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry for each user
     currently logged into the system.

     Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine.  The format is
     to specify a user as `user@host', or `@host', where the default output
     format for the former is the -l style, and the default output format for
     the latter is the -s style.  The -l option is the only option that may be
     passed to a remote machine.

SEE ALSO
     in.fingerd

HISTORY
     The finger command appeared in 3.0BSD.