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Old 08-25-2008
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I solved my own problem, found out $$ is the PID of the current sesison, so instead of
Code:
who am i | awk '{print$6}'
I simply did
Code:
who -u | grep $$ | awk '{print$8}'
works great and everything is rolling along as it should again.