finger.java

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package org.apache.commons.net.examples.unix;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import org.apache.commons.net.finger.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.
 * <p>
 * The -l flag is used to request long output from the server.
 */
public final class finger {

    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        boolean longOutput = false;
        int arg = 0, index;
        String handle, host;
        final 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][@<server>]] ...]");
                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 (final 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 (final 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 (final 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);
                    System.out.println("[" + address.getHostName() + "]");
                } catch (final UnknownHostException e) {
                    System.err.println("Error unknown host: " + e.getMessage());
                    System.exit(1);
                }
            }

            try {
                finger.connect(address);
                System.out.print(finger.query(longOutput, handle));
                finger.disconnect();
            } catch (final IOException e) {
                System.err.println("Error I/O exception: " + e.getMessage());
                System.exit(1);
            }

            ++arg;
            if (arg != args.length) {
                System.out.print("\n");
            }
        }
    }
}