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Quickly lookup GitHub user and organization information using a standard `finger` command.\n\n**Syntax**\n\n```\nfinger zachflower@fingerer.zacharyflower.com\n```\n\n**Response**\n\n```\n+-[ User ]-------------------------------------------------------------------+\n|                                                                            |\n| Username: zachflower                 Full Name: Zachary Flower             |\n| Website: http://zacharyflower.com    Email: zach@zacharyflower.com         |\n| Location: Boulder, CO                                                      |\n|                                                                            |\n+-[ Stats ]------------------------------------------------------------------+\n|                                                                            |\n| Followers: 26            Following: 11            Repositories: 35         |\n|                                                                            |\n+-[ Biography ]--------------------------------------------------------------+\n|                                                                            |\n| Professional nerd, avid indoorsman, technical writer, contributor          |\n| @fixateio, lead developer @emersonstone                                    |\n|                                                                            |\n+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+\n\nMember since Sat Jul 16 19:20:34 2011\n```\n\n## Background\n\nVia Wikipedia:\n\n\u003e The Name/Finger protocol, written by David Zimmerman, is based on Request for Comments document [RFC 742](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc742) (December 1977) as an interface to the **name** and **finger** programs that provide status reports on a particular computer system or a particular person at network sites. The finger program was written in 1971 by [Les Earnest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest) who created the program to solve the need of users who wanted information on other users of the network. Information on who is logged-in was useful to check the availability of a person to meet. This was probably the earliest form of [presence information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_information) for remote network users.\n\u003e\n\u003e Prior to the finger program, the only way to get this information was with a [**who**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_(Unix)) program that showed IDs and terminal line numbers (the server's internal number of the communication line, over which the user's terminal is connected) for logged-in users. Earnest named his program after the idea that people would run their fingers down the who list to find what they were looking for.\n\n## Installation\n\nAdd this line to your application's Gemfile:\n\n```\ngem 'fingerer'\n```\n\nAnd then execute:\n\n```\nbundle install\n```\n\nOr install it yourself as:\n\n```\ngem install fingerer\n```\n\n## Usage\n\n```\nUsage: fingerer [options]\n    -d, --daemonize                  Run as a background process\n    -p, --port PORT                  Port to run on (default: 79)\n    -l, --listen IP                  IP to listen on (default: 0.0.0.0)\n```\n\n**Note: Finger(er) must be run as root, as fingerd is expected to be listening on port 79.**\n\n## Contributing\n\n1. Fork it\n2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)\n3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)\n4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)\n5. Create new Pull Request\n\n## License\n\nFingerer is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fzachflower%2Ffingerer","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fzachflower%2Ffingerer","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fzachflower%2Ffingerer/lists"}