TEL(1) TEL(1) NAME tel, pq, iwhois - look in phone book SYNOPSIS tel key ... pq [-f] value pq [-f] attribute=value iwhois name[@domain] DESCRIPTION Tel looks up key in a private telephone book, $home/lib/tel, and in the public telephone book, /lib/tel. It uses grep (with the -i option to ignore case differences), so the key may be any part of a name or number. Customarily, the tele- phone book contains names, userids, home numbers, and office numbers of users. It also contains a directory of area codes and miscellaneous people of general interest. Pq looks up entries in the Lucent personnel database. Each search is against a single attribute. The possible search attributes are: tel a telephone number. An entry matches if its telephone number ends in the digits given in value. name a proper name. Value must contain a family name, optionally prefixed with first and middle names or ini- tials separated by '.'s. For example, emlin, grace.emlin, g.r.emlin can can be used to look up Grace Roosevelt Emlin. org an organization name. Value can be any prefix string of an organization number. For example, bl011 looks up everyone in research while bl011273 looks up everyone in a single department. id a post id. Value must exactly match the post id. The attribute can be explicitly declared, e.g. tel=5551212, or can be inferred from the form of the value using the fol- lowing criteria: 1) A value containing a '.' implies a name. 2) Nothing but digits, '+', and '-' implies a telephone number. Page 1 Plan 9 (printed 5/21/24) TEL(1) TEL(1) 3) A mix of digits and letters implies an organization. 4) Anything else implies two searches, first with the attribute id and if that fails, with attribute name. With no flags, pq returns for each match a single line con- taining the employee's name, title, organization, location, room, telephone number, and email address. With -f, pq returns a fuller multiline entry for each match. Iwhois looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel data- base. Name should be a surname optionally followed by a comma and given name. A different server can be chosen by appending to the name an @ followed by the server's domain name. FILES /lib/tel Public telephone number database. SOURCE /rc/bin/tel /rc/bin/iwhois Page 2 Plan 9 (printed 5/21/24)