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 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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package examples;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import org.apache.commons.net.FingerClient;

/***
 * This is an example of how you would implement the finger command
 * in Java using NetComponents.  The Java version is much shorter.
 * But keep in mind that the Unix finger command reads all sorts of
 * local files to output local finger information.  This program only
 * queries the finger daemon.
 * 

* The -l flag is used to request long output from the server. *

***/ public final class finger { public static final void main(String[] args) { boolean longOutput = false; int arg = 0, index; String handle, host; FingerClient finger; InetAddress address = null; // Get flags. If an invalid flag is present, exit with usage message. while (arg < args.length && args[arg].startsWith("-")) { if (args[arg].equals("-l")) longOutput = true; else { System.err.println("usage: finger [-l] [[[handle][@]] ...]"); System.exit(1); } ++arg; } finger = new FingerClient(); // We want to timeout if a response takes longer than 60 seconds finger.setDefaultTimeout(60000); if (arg >= args.length) { // Finger local host try { address = InetAddress.getLocalHost(); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { System.err.println("Error unknown host: " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } try { finger.connect(address); System.out.print(finger.query(longOutput)); finger.disconnect(); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("Error I/O exception: " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } return ; } // Finger each argument while (arg < args.length) { index = args[arg].lastIndexOf("@"); if (index == -1) { handle = args[arg]; try { address = InetAddress.getLocalHost(); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { System.err.println("Error unknown host: " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } } else { handle = args[arg].substring(0, index); host = args[arg].substring(index + 1); try { address = InetAddress.getByName(host); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { System.err.println("Error unknown host: " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } } System.out.println("[" + address.getHostName() + "]"); try { finger.connect(address); System.out.print(finger.query(longOutput, handle)); finger.disconnect(); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("Error I/O exception: " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } ++arg; if (arg != args.length) System.out.print("\n"); } } }

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