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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3
Message-ID: <14818@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:57:50 GMT
References: <9101091725.AA15013@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jan10.130738.10194@unhtel.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jan10.130738.10194@unhtel.uucp> paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer) writes:
>$ who -Hq
>argos jed lookout paul paul root 
># users=6

Of course the actual bug is that "who" has no business being designed
this way.  If you want columnation, it is trivial (who|6, for example),
as is a user count (who|wc).  Building such functionality into the
"who" command is so much against UNIX design principles that I have to
wonder who could have approved such features.