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sorry for the late feedback.

the suggested solution didn't give me what i wanted which was the first two fields in a finger command i.e. username and full name without using awk or sed.

I found...

sorry about the double post vgersh99.
the solution you gave didn't work in bash.

I was able to use cut -d ' ' -f1 file to get the first word on the line but cant get the second word on line...

Hello all,

my unix is bash based and the finger command output is:

Login Name Tty Idle LoginTime Office
amos.john Amos John pts/26 1 Dec 5 16:18 (77.100.22.07)

What am trying to achieve is...

my unix is bash based and the finger command output is:

Login Name Tty Idle LoginTime Office
amos.john Amos John pts/26 1 Dec 5 16:18 (77.100.22.07)
...

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to extract the user name and full name from the finger command without using sed or awk.

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance.