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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using finger in a loop Post 302889330 by Don Cragun on Thursday 20th of February 2014 03:24:35 AM

02-20-2014

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stew

But the command you mentioned will not print the user id

I want to pass with user is like

Code:

Login name: abe96   Last login Fri Feb 14 2014 11:16 on pts/56 from redbftyu45
Login name: kna51   Last login Wed Aug 7, 2013 on pts/111
Login name: 34e34   On since Feb 20 2014 12:19:08 on pts/24 from revbf43dbhtty
Login name: 4rtge    On since Feb 20 2014 11:26:13 on pts/11 from  revbf43dbhtty

That's interesting. I didn't see anything in the 1st ten messages in this thread that said this is what you want. I explicitly stated in message #8 in this thread:

Quote:

Please show us the exact output you want to produce for the sample input you provided.

and your response to that in message #9 in this thread said that you wanted to get was:

Code:

Last login Fri Feb 14 2014 11:16 on pts/56 from redbftyu45
Last login Wed Aug 7, 2013 on pts/111
On since Feb 20 2014 12:19:08 on pts/24 from revbf43dbhtty
On since Feb 20 2014 11:26:13 on pts/11 from  revbf43dbhtty

I don't see anything here about wanting the user ID in this output.

With you new requirements, a simple way produce the output you requested is:

Code:

awk '
/^Login name/ {
        name = $1 " " $2 " " $3
        next
}
/^(Last login|On since)/ {
        print name "   " $0
}' input_file

as long as you don't require the inconsistent spacing between fields shown above.

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FINGER.CONF(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						    FINGER.CONF(5)

NAME

     finger.conf -- finger(1) alias configuration file

DESCRIPTION

     The optional finger.conf file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local and network users.	This may be useful where a user's
     login name is not the same as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names than can be fingered.

     Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments.  Other lines must consist of an alias name and a target name separated by a colon.  A target name
     should be either a user, a forward reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file.

     Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed when the alias is fingered.

FILES

     /etc/finger.conf  finger(1) alias definition data base

EXAMPLES

     # /etc/finger.conf alias definition file
     #
     # Format alias:(user|alias)
     #
     # Individual aliases
     #
     markk:mkn
     john.smith:dev329
     john:dev329
     sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt
     #
     # Network status message
     #
     status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt
     #
     # Administrative redirects
     #
     root:admin
     postmaster:admin
     abuse:admin
     #
     # For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin.
     #
     admin:sod

SEE ALSO

     finger(1)

HISTORY

     Support for the finger.conf file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.

BSD
								  August 16, 2000							       BSD

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