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Old 05-29-2008
Pipes not working
Hi,

thanks for b4. can anyone tell me why following not working:

noUsers=$(who | cut -d" " -f1 | wc -l)

What i'm trying to do is get a list of logged on users and pass it to 'wc -l' and store the output to a variable. Any ideas?
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Old 05-29-2008
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Originally Posted by Furqan_79
Hi,

thanks for b4. can anyone tell me why following not working:

noUsers=$(who | cut -d" " -f1 | wc -l)

What i'm trying to do is get a list of logged on users and pass it to 'wc -l' and store the output to a variable. Any ideas?
Code:
noUsers=`who | cut -d"  " -f1 | wc -l`

thanks
namish
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