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fingerd -s Show short format: login name, real name, terminal name, write status, idle time, office location, and office phone number. fingerd in.fingerd [option] Description TCP/IP command. Remote user information server. fingerd provides a network interface to the finger program. It listens for TCP connections on the finger port and, for each connection, reads a single input line, passes the line to finger, and copies the output of finger to the user on the client machine. fingerd is started by inetd and must have an entry in inetd's configu- ration file, /etc/inetd.conf. Option -w Include additional information, such as uptime and the name of the operating system. flex flex [options] [file]