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# 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`
