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[–] decolo@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

man finger

touch $it; nice -n 1 cat; fsck; shutdown

[–] analfabeto@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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