finger

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

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/finger.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install finger
Ubuntu
apt-get install finger
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install finger
CentOS
yum install finger
Fedora
dnf install finger
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install finger
Raspbian
apt-get install 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

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