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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script Gone Wrong Post 302421694 by jlliagre on Saturday 15th of May 2010 06:58:34 PM
Old 05-15-2010
They indeed read the same file but reports different values:
Code:
$ who -q                                                             
jlliagre jlliagre jlliagre guest    
# users=4
$ uptime                                                             
 12:56am  up  5:15,  2 users,  load average: 0,10, 0,16, 0,16

"How many users" is undoubtly ambiguous.
 

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uptime(1)							   User Commands							 uptime(1)

NAME
uptime - show how long the system has been up SYNOPSIS
uptime DESCRIPTION
The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w(1) command. EXAMPLES
Below is an example of the output uptime provides: example% uptime 10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
who -b gives the time the system was last booted. SunOS 5.10 18 Mar 1994 uptime(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:54 AM.
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