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# 1  
Old 04-05-2005
Text Append
I'm creating a script that counts the number of users currently online, then records that in a file called "log.txt" along with the time. Everytime the script is ran, the script appends the "log.txt"

this is what I have:

who|wc|cut -c6,7>>log.txt
date|cut -c12-24>>log.txt

After running the program, I checked the "log.txt" and this is what it had:

28
10:48:35 EDT

How will I make it so the "number of users" and "time" are beside each other in one line? (ex: 28 10:48:35 EDT)
# 2  
Old 04-05-2005
There's any number of ways that you can do this, though I must admit it sounds suspiciously like homework. So not to deviate to far from what you've already done:

WHO=`who | wc -l | sed -e"s/ * //g"`
NOW=`date|cut -c12-24`

echo "$WHO $NOW" >> log.txt

Cheers,

Keith
# 3  
Old 04-05-2005
It's not homework. Smilie I'm trying to learn unix on my own. I'm just playing around with making scripts. Thanks for the help! I actually learned pretty much DOS and everything else that has to do with computers by what I am doing right now with unix. Smilie
# 4  
Old 04-05-2005
Great. Sorry for my assumption. Look forward to your future posts.

Keith
# 5  
Old 04-05-2005
try this one ... (note the backticks in bold red) ...
Code:
echo "`who|awk 'END {print NR}'` `date|awk '{print $4, $5}'`" > log.txt

# 6  
Old 04-05-2005
got it! Thanks people! Smilie
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