_____.__ | |
_/ ____\__| ____ ____ ___________ | |
\ __\| |/ \ / ___\_/ __ \_ __ \ | |
| | | | | \/ /_/ > ___/| | \/ | |
|__| |__|___| /\___ / \___ >__| | |
\//_____/ \/ | |
The 'finger' command is used to get information about a | |
specific user on a local or remote system. Things like | |
full name, telephone number and email address. | |
It also normally displays the contents of the '.projects' | |
and '.plan' files in the users directory. The user can put | |
anything he wants into this files. Sometimes it contains | |
useful information about the user's activity, serves as a | |
kind of microblogging or all manner of humor. | |
<== My finger service ==> | |
I've set up a finger service on my server with my own | |
scripts which provide all kinds of information. | |
Available fingers and system info: | |
finger @redterminal.org | |
Actual info about me (/now): | |
finger [email protected] | |
My latest Mastodon/ActivityPub posts: | |
finger [email protected] | |
My latest gemlog post: | |
finger [email protected] | |
My latest gopher phlog post: | |
finger [email protected] | |
My GnuPG/OpenPGP public key: | |
finger [email protected] | |
Weather condition at my location: | |
finger [email protected] | |
<== Your own finger ==> | |
I would like to see more people using their finger service. | |
Most of the pubnixes and tildes have some kind of finger | |
service set up on their system. In fact it's more and more | |
common in the smolnet community to have a finger address. | |
For example I use my personal finger address as a kind of | |
/now page where I put in what I'm currently doing in the | |
mid term. But you can put anything you want in it. | |
<== Join epochs finger ring ==> | |
You can make updates to your finger address public by | |
joining the finger ring. You can get information how to | |
join it here: | |
finger [email protected]/ring | |
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