I'm creating a script that counts the number of users currently online, then records that in a file called "log.txt" along with the time. Everytime the script is ran, the script appends the "log.txt"

this is what I have:

who|wc|cut -c6,7>>log.txt
date|cut -c12-24>>log.txt

After running the program, I checked the "log.txt" and this is what it had:

28
10:48:35 EDT

How will I make it so the "number of users" and "time" are beside each other in one line? (ex: 28 10:48:35 EDT)

There's any number of ways that you can do this, though I must admit it sounds suspiciously like homework. So not to deviate to far from what you've already done:

WHO=`who | wc -l | sed -e"s/ * //g"`
NOW=`date|cut -c12-24`

echo "$WHO $NOW" >> log.txt

Cheers,

Keith

It's not homework. I'm trying to learn unix on my own. I'm just playing around with making scripts. Thanks for the help! I actually learned pretty much DOS and everything else that has to do with computers by what I am doing right now with unix.

Great. Sorry for my assumption. Look forward to your future posts.

Keith

try this one ... (note the backticks in bold red) ...

got it! Thanks people!