Finger(er)
Finger(er) is a finger server that returns the GitHub profile associated with the provided username. Quickly lookup GitHub user and organization information using a standard finger command.
Syntax
finger zachflower@fingerer.zacharyflower.com
Response
+-[ User ]-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Username: zachflower Full Name: Zachary Flower |
| Website: http://zacharyflower.com Email: zach@zacharyflower.com |
| Location: Boulder, CO |
| |
+-[ Stats ]------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Followers: 26 Following: 11 Repositories: 35 |
| |
+-[ Biography ]--------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Professional nerd, avid indoorsman, technical writer, contributor |
| @fixateio, lead developer @emersonstone |
| |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Member since Sat Jul 16 19:20:34 2011
Background
Via Wikipedia:
The Name/Finger protocol, written by David Zimmerman, is based on Request for Comments document RFC 742 (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 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 for remote network users.
Prior to the finger program, the only way to get this information was with a who 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.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'fingerer'
And then execute:
bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
gem install fingerer
Usage
Usage: fingerer [options]
-d, --daemonize Run as a background process
-p, --port PORT Port to run on (default: 79)
-l, --listen IP IP to listen on (default: 0.0.0.0)
Note: Finger(er) must be run as root, as fingerd is expected to be listening on port 79.
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
License
Fingerer is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.