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finger — User information lookup program. More information: <https://manned.org/finger>.

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Problem

How to use the finger command: User information lookup program. More information: <https://manned.org/finger>.

Solution

finger — User information lookup program. More information: <https://manned.org/finger>.

Display information about currently logged in users:
finger


Display information about a specific user:
finger {{username}}


Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name, and other information:
finger -s


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


Prevent matching against user's names and only use login names:
finger -m

Code Snippets

Display information about currently logged in users

finger

Display information about a specific user

finger {{username}}

Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name, and other information

finger -s

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

Prevent matching against user's names and only use login names

finger -m

Context

tldr-pages: common/finger

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