[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (FINGER)

[Bharathi Subramanian]

One Day One GNU/Linux Command 
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finger -- User information lookup program.

Summary:

finger will lookup and displays information about users in the local 
or remote system.

Example:

$ finger -- Show currently logged on user's info.

$ finger user1 -- Show info about the user1.

$ finger -s -- Show more info about the currently logged on users.

$ finger -l -- Show all info about the users in multi-lines.

$ finger @host2 -- Show all current logged on users info.

$ finger user2 at host2 -- Show info about user2 on host2.

Note:
1) User can add his/her plans in ~/.plan and projects details in 
   ~/.project file. Finger will show this in output.
2) Remote host should run fingerd to support remote fingering.

Read: man finger

HTH :)
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Bharathi S