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Linux finger Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)

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Himanshu Arora
Nov 30, 2018

If you are a Linux system admin, or your work involves managing users, there are many tools that you should be aware of. Once such command line utility is finger, basics of which we’ll be discussing here in this tutorial.

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Himanshu Arora

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