Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello;

I am trying to find a way to keep just the top line from the following output w/o using grep..

Any ideas ??

Thank you

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last mountzou
mountzou pts/23 Wed Sep 14 13:37 - 14:06 (00:29)
mountzou pts/23 Wed Sep 14 12:21 - 12:45 (00:24)
mountzou pts/31 Wed Sep 14 11:36 - 11:42 (00:05)

WTMPS_FILE begins at Wed Sep 14 04:02:07
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you mean to retain "last mountzou" ??

Code:

head -n 1 inputFile

--ahamed

of course..

sorry for the trouble

so you mean the second line?

Code:

1 ==============================
2 last mountzou
3 mountzou pts/23       Wed Sep 14 13:37 - 14:06  (00:29)
4 mountzou pts/23       Wed Sep 14 12:21 - 12:45  (00:24)
5 mountzou pts/31       Wed Sep 14 11:36 - 11:42  (00:05)

6 WTMPS_FILE  begins at Wed Sep 14 04:02:07
7 ===============================

Code:

head -n 2 inputFile | tail -1

or

awk 'NR==2{print} inputFile

or 

sed -n '2 p' inputFile

--ahamed