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Old 04-21-2004
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hi,
I need a regular expression that returns the user name(s) only!!!
from the output of the "who" command.


user name
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sorry if i misunderstood expression, but would

who|grep -v "user name"|awk '{print $1}' suffice?
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sorry if i misunderstood expression, but would

who|grep -v "user name"|awk '{print $1}' suffice?
you can bypass the grep protion if you use the -u flag for the who command.
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Smile to get the usernames from who command
who | cut -d " " -f 1
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