Shell Programming and Scripting

Try this:

Code:

$finger -m username | grep "On since" | awk '{print $NF}'

It would work if in place of the "On Since" I could put the terminal as a result from who am i = who am i |cut -c12-20

It would be better idea to put here exactly what you are looking for rather telling us how you want to acheive it, because you mentioned earlier that you are looking for to get the station name from where user is initiating the connection and I think the command which I have given you suffice your requiremnt, can you please post here your exact requirements.

Thanks.

I try to be more clear:
below is the output of finger gxb

$ finger gxb
Login name: gxb
Directory: /home/gxb Shell: /sbin/ksh
On since Jan 22 15:05:31 on pts/4 from BS-013
1 hour 13 minutes Idle Time
No unread mail
No Plan.

Login name: gxb
Directory: /home/gxb Shell: /sbin/ksh
On since Jan 23 10:58:52 on pts/10 from BS-013
11 minutes Idle Time

Login name: gxb
Directory: /home/gxb Shell: /sbin/ksh
On since Jan 23 11:03:02 on pts/11 from BS-013
23 minutes Idle Time

Login name: gxb
Directory: /home/gxb Shell: /sbin/ksh
On since Jan 23 11:26:14 on pts/12 from BS-014
18 seconds Idle Time

as you can see I connect several sessions ( pts/4 pts/10 pts/11 pts/12) from several locations BS-013 BS-014

I only want to know on what location I logged on

Ok, try:

Code:

finger gxb|awk ' /from/ {print $NF}'|sort -u

bye

Code:

finger gxb | \
awk '$1=="On" && $(NF-1)=="from" { print $NF }' |\
sort | uniq -c

Jean-Pierre.

Hello

thanks, this gives me the 2 locations.

However I only want the one I am actually working on