Poor man's remote finger (csh script)

[Darrell Long]

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 at 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 at 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]