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Old 03-29-2001
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Is there any way to find the number of unique users in a system other than
who | cut -d" " -f1 | sort -u | wc -l
?
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Old 03-29-2001
who|awk '{prin($1)}'|uniq -c|wc -l

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Old 03-29-2001
Quote:
who|awk '{prin($1)}'|uniq -c|wc -l
Don't forget the "t" in "print"

You could also do: w -h | awk '{print $1}' | uniq -c | wc -l
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Old 03-29-2001
Thanx PxT Smilie
 
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