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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: laston.c - determine last time user has logged on
Message-ID: <15082@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:17:10 GMT
References: <1540@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1540@lakesys.lakesys.com> davek@lakesys.lakesys.com (Dave Kraft) writes:
>Here's a little something I wrote to help me determine when I've last logged
>on...

Perhaps a bit overdone?  How about

	#! /bin/sh
	lof=$HOME/.laston
	test -f $lof && echo "Last on: "`cat $lof`
	date > $lof

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