🧙‍♂️ Magic Finger

A colorful, customizable system info CLI tool — a modern reimagination of the classic finger command.

📸 Screenshots

Markdown and All Output Example

Minimal and JSON Output Example

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Shows detailed user info:
  • Username, shell, home dir
  • Last login, login status
  • Uptime, home file count
• 🎨 Colorful output with emoji and ANSI styles
• ⚡ Blazing Fast using ripgrep (Rust-powered)
• 📋 Optional Markdown export with glow
• 🧠 Easily extensible with flags

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🔧 Available Options

Flag | Description --markdown | Show output as Markdown using glow --copy | Copy output to clipboard (xclip / pbcopy) --all | Loop through all users on the system --json | Output raw JSON (good for scripting) --minimal | Compact info: username, real name, home dir, shell, last login...

ℹ️ If no flag is provided, it runs for the current user only.

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🛠 Requirements

• bash (tested on 5.2+)
• ripgrep
• lastlog
• glow (for Markdown preview)
• xclip or pbcopy (for --copy)

Install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ripgrep fzf

Install glow manually:

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/charmbracelet/glow/releases/latest \
| grep browser_download_url | grep amd64.deb | cut -d '"' -f 4 \
| wget -qi - && sudo dpkg -i glow*.deb

🧪 Example

./magic-finger.sh --markdown --copy

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🚀 Contributing

Want to add features? Fork the repo and send a PR!

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📜 License

MIT License — do what you want, just give credit 🙏

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👣 Inspired By

• The original Unix finger
• ripgrep
• glow