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Building Pipelines?

How would I combine commands in a pipeline to produce an alphabetized list of who's online at a particular moment?

Then:

How would I take that pipeline and turn it into a command called "whoison"?
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Old 09-27-2009
Code:
alias whoison='who|cut -d" " -f1|sort -u'

You can put it in your .bashrc or equivalent resource file
 
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