From: ducky@yabbs
To: Thorwak@yabbs
Subject: re: finger script
Date: Fri Feb 18 11:08:40 1994
In message finger script, Thorwak said:
> I made this script that contained about 100 lines in the format
> finger <name> >> <filename>
> and ran it in the background. Then I DL'd the file, only to discover
> that several login names occured at 5-6 times in the output file.
> I'm 100% sure that there was no user with more than one "finger entry" in 
> the script, so I really don't understand why this happened... Anyone got 
> any ideas?

Some versions of finger return a full listing for a person for every tty that
they are logged in on.  So, if a person was logged in a bunch of times (say
using screen or X), you'd get the full spew about them for each tty.

This is kinda braindead, and most modern fingers just list a single line for
each tty a person is on in a single entry for them.

-k