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From: jrw@mtune.att.com (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I'm learning UNIX and I have a simple question
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.144113.22326@mtune.att.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 14:41:13 GMT
References: <jpope.677361841@sysp1> <16470@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <16470@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <jpope.677361841@sysp1> jpope@hq.af.mil (i991x) writes:
>>In the UNIX that I use there is a command "who" which lists the users that
>>are currently on the system (as well as which terminal, when they logged on,
>>etc..).  The problem is that they are listed one user per line.
>>I would like to strip off the first field (the id-name) and output to the
>>screen four columns (four users per line instead of one) without the other
>>information about where and when they logged in.
>
>	who | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | 4
>
>where "4" is one of several links ("2" through "6") to the same
>executable shell script that I maintain in one of the command directories:
>
>	exec pr -t -w80 -`basename $0` $*

In the SVR3.2 and similiar universes, you can also say 'who -q -n4'

Jim