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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!xlink100!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!snert!gummo.ka.sub.org!gummo.ka.sub.org!not-for-mail From: bertram@gummo.ka.sub.org (Bertram Barth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Wildcard searches with fingerd/NetBSD ? Date: 8 Nov 1994 21:54:52 +0100 Organization: private site in Bruchsal, Germany Lines: 24 Message-ID: <39ooja$fdv@harpo.ka.sub.org> References: <access.27.1481484A@mac.org> <39j2f8$qaa@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: harpo.ka.sub.org In article <39j2f8$qaa@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, Chris Mattingly <ozzy@thunder.catt.ncsu.edu> wrote: >access@mac.org (Access Coordinator) writes: > >>I've been using the out-of-the-box finger daemon for NetBSD -- but I really >>need the ability to search on both the name and office fields including >>wildcard searches. Does anyone know where I can find a better fingerd? >>(preferably the binary!!:) > >It's not the finger daemon that does the matching of any sort. [...] >As far as wildcards, all I can say is goodluck. OK, it's a solution on the client's and not on the server's side, but what about getting the complete output from finger/fingerd and using a local "grep" for filtering the output: finger [-l] @remote.machine | grep whatever-you-want Ciao, bertram -- at home: bertram@gummo.ka.sub.org (++7251) 81325 at work: bertram@ifib1.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de (++721) 608-2168