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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
Old 02-20-2014
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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