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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Best way to edit a file Post 302480640 by skunky on Wednesday 15th of December 2010 11:33:54 AM
Old 12-15-2010
ok, I should have been a bit more clear. Some of versions of this file can be varying on some machines. The one identical factor is that the line on every machine will start with 'users_here' (for example, the string after 'u=' might be varying on some machines). So I need a script/command that will search the file for the line starting with 'users_here', and if there happens to be a 'usera' in that line, I want it removed.

I would like to just edit this file and not have to add another step of moving a new file into it's place, if possible.

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rwho(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   rwho(1)

NAME
rwho - show who is logged in on local machines SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
produces output similar to the output of the HP-UX command for all machines on the local network that are running the daemon (see who(1) and rwhod(1M)). If has not received a report from a machine for 11 minutes, assumes the machine is down and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine. output line has fields for the name of the user, the name of the machine, the user's terminal line, the time the user logged in, and the amount of time the user has been idle. Idle time is shown as: If a user has not typed to the system for a minute or more, reports this as idle time. If a user has not typed to the system for an hour or more, the user is omitted from output unless the flag is given. An example output line from would look similar to: This output line could be interpreted as is logged into and his terminal line is has been logged on since September 12 at 13:28 (1:28 p.m.). has not typed anything into for 11 minutes. WARNINGS
output becomes unwieldy when the number of users for each machine on the local network running becomes large. One line of output occurs for each user on each machine on the local network that is running AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
Information about other machines. SEE ALSO
ruptime(1), rusers(1), rwhod(1M). rwho(1)
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