cannedtuna@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agoTerminologyimagemessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1890arrow-down115
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minus-squareheartSagan5@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt’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
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