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GNU Finger

1.2 Command Line Options

There are a number of command line options that you can give to GNU Finger:

`--face'

`-f'

Ask Finger for the face of all users information has been requested about. An explicit user list has to be provided.

`--info'

`-l'

`-i'

Display the "long" form of information for the users fingered. The exact information returned depends on what finger software is run on the remote host -- GNU Finger, for instance, returns specific information. `-l' is supplied for backwards compatibility; finger as distributed from Berkeley has this option.

`--brief'

`-b'

Display the "short" form of information for the users fingered. This is the opposite of `--info'.

`--port port'

`-P port'

Make a connection to port, which can be either a numerical port number or a service name from `/etc/services'.

`--help'

`-h'

Print a description of all options.