darrell@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Darrell Long) (12/26/86)
Did you ever want to know if someone at a remote site were still alive, whether he had logged in in the last six months? For folks with ARPAnet connexions that's easy to do with finger(1), but for those who have not ARPAnet it's not so easy. I wrote a short csh script that will do a remote finger via e- mail. This allows you to check on your favorite hacker without calling him on the phone (to see why he didn't answer your e- mail). I hope it is helpful. Example: mail -s darrell finger%beowulf.ucsd.edu@sdcsvax.uucp DL Darrell Long Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, C-014 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 ARPA: Darrell@Beowulf.UCSD.EDU UUCP: sdcsvax!beowulf!darrell -- #/bin/csh -f # # MFING -- The poor man's remote finger. # # This shell script will do a "finger" on the person requested in the # subject line and return that information to the sender. # # Install it as an alias in your /usr/lib/aliases file: # # finger:"| /local/bin/mfing" # # DDEL # Tue Oct 14 14:25:54 PDT 1986 # DREL # Tue Oct 14 15:07:27 PDT 1986 # set args = (`egrep "From |Subject:"`) set who if ($#args >= 9) set who=($args[9-]) /usr/ucb/finger $who | /usr/ucb/mail -s "finger $who" $args[2]