c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026 16:23 Terminology check post at origin
man finger
touch $it; nice -n 1 cat; fsck; shutdown
No manual entry for finger
It’s an old lookup tool. I believe it printed the gecos/“meta data about a username logged in” from passwd on UNIX boxes back in the day.
You can do
getent passwd $USER