Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello to all,

I'm new to shell programming and I am trying to come up with a way to find out if the output of the rusers command has more then one word since rusers would return the name of the server if no one has accessed it. Im having a hard time trying to use wc in a comparsion so that i can store the table from rusers to a file if there is more than one word this is the code I have so far.

#!/bin/sh
#FindUser.sh

i=1

cat HostName | while read line
do
count='rusers $line | wc -w'
if [$count -gt i] ; then
rusers $line >>rusers.out
fi
done

Im not sure if this is the best approach so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

nevermind used ' instead of ` dumb mistake

Just a note,

Code:

while read line; do
  # ...
done < HostName

would avoid the UUoC.

Cheers
ZB