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I have been slowly working towards getting a shell window in Cygwin (and/or Gnome and/or KDE) to start up and display the last time it was opened (or sourced) similarly to how the OS X Terminal does so. As close as I've been able to get so far is the 'who' command, but I can't seem to puzzle out how to 'pull out' (extract, is perhaps the better term) what is returned under the TIME and COMMENT columns in a "who -h" command. I presume if I could get the time and comment information I could then write a function into my .bashrc that puts that information at the top of a newly-opened (or newly-re-sourced) terminal window, along with my $PS1 line and, when called for, motd.

I've also tried drawing out the time and host Ip from the 'last' command, with equal amounts of $NO_LUCK

I hope someone more familiar with command return extractions can help me with this.

BZT

Try this as a starting point:

Code:

$ who -m | perl -pe 's/\S+\s+\S+\s+(.*?)$/$1/'
May  6 19:38

or, from remote

Code:

$ who -m | perl -pe 's/\S+\s+\S+\s+(.*?)$/$1/'
May  6 19:30 (192.168.0.31)

...reformat that string so it appears more like:

Last login: 12:30 from tty1 (:0)
{or remote: 'from 66.189.62.134' (to give an example off the top of my head)}

... which is where I wanted to apply this information?