I have taken all active user list and passing it to below code
I got below O/P
But is I harcode the finger command like
getting below O/P
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Was usr an exported variable in the shell that invoked your script? I assume that it was not; so you effectively have a loop that runs the command:
one time for every word in the file sample.out. Each time you invoke this command, the contents of the file report.txt is overwritten. As a wild guess, I would think that the following might come closer to providing the output you were trying to produce:
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-19-2014 at 10:24 PM..
Reason: Add color to show relationship between read variable name and the argument to finger.
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Hi, I've been using unix at college for a few weeks now and I have come up against a few stumbling blocks:
- Most unix commands seem to work w/ regexps - the computers I and my group are allowed to logon to are all itsunXX where XX is a number. if I can {finger @itsun88} to find out that I and... (1 Reply)
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Hey, I was wondering If anybody knew of a way to make a log of all users who type the command finger username when username is my own.
I would like to see who is keeping track of me :)
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX)
Kind of:
#!/usr/bin/sh
USER=mylogin
finger $USER
if $? = 0
then
echo "EXIST""
else
echo "DOES NOT EXIST"
fi (10 Replies)
Hi,
iam using sunsolaris.
when you type finger command -- it dispalys information about local and remote users.
but here it shows as can't stat /dev/gold:8664
can anybody help what is the solution for this error.
previously the output came.
thanks,
shan (1 Reply)
Is there any possible way to get rid of the header when I do finger ?
I want to get rid of
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone
as the header.
Please let me know how to do it. (2 Replies)
I want to know the correct version of how i should use the finger command in this example below.(os is debian lenny)
(nymserver.pl is located in /home/nymserv directory.)
the two versions are :
(in/etc/inetd.conf)
finger stream tcp nowait nymuser /usr/nym/nymserv nymserv... (3 Replies)
Two things : On the first place i am really desperate, on the second i am about to throw my laptop away to the recycle bin in a while.
Ok now that i expressed my feeling let me describe you this mad situation.
Code:
print $1;
("finger -m " $1 "| head -1") | getline userinfo
print... (6 Replies)
Hi
Does anyone know if there is anyway of doing the finger command for all user id's in my enviroment. What I need to obtain is the full names of all users on the system.
I know if i do the finger command with no arguments it will list users currently logged in, but i need all users...
... (2 Replies)