+++ /dev/null
-#! /usr/bin/perl -w
-use diagnostics;
-use strict;
-
-my $arg = shift;
-
-print "Querying hermes for $arg ... ";
-
-my $pid = open FINGER, "-|";
-if (!defined $pid)
-{
- print "can't fork: $!\n";
- exit 2;
-}
-elsif (!$pid)
-{
- if (not exec 'finger', "$arg\@hermes")
- {
- print "can't exec finger: $!\n";
- exit 2;
- }
-}
-else
-{
- <FINGER>;
- <FINGER>;
- $/ = undef;
- my $finger = <FINGER>;
- close FINGER;
-
- unless (defined $finger)
- {
- print "no matches\n";
- exit 1;
- }
-
- my @people = split /\n/, $finger;
- foreach my $person (@people)
- {
- $person =~ s/^([^ ]*) *(.{1,20}[^ ]).*$/$1\t$2/ or $person = '';
- }
- @people = grep /./, @people;
-
- if (@people == 0) { print "no matches\n"; exit 1; }
- elsif (@people == 1) { print "1 match\n"; }
- else { print scalar(@people), " matches\n"; }
-
- print "$_\n" foreach @people;
-}
-