topic Re: regular expression in Operating System - HP-UX

regular expression

mo jaber — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:47:22 GMT

hi,
I need a regular expression that returns the user name(s) only!!!
from the output of the "who" command.

user name
ronajt pts/1 Apr 21 14:50
root pts/2 Apr 21 14:52
dorint pts/3 Apr 21 14:52
allago pts/4 Apr 21 15:01

Re: regular expression

Scott Palmer_1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:53:50 GMT

who | awk '{print $1}'
works for me

if you want something a bit more envolved, i can do that too

Regards

Scott

Re: regular expression

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:54:07 GMT

who |awk '{ print $1 }'

should work...

Re: regular expression

Todd McDaniel_1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:54:57 GMT

LOL missed being first by 27 seconds!!! hehe

no points here. plz

Re: regular expression

Scott Palmer_1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:55:57 GMT

amazing that we though of the same thing, guess that is the best way to do it!!

Re: regular expression

RAC_1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:58:48 GMT

missed by 17 seconds

Re: regular expression

Jeff_Traigle — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:04:30 GMT

Just to be difficult and different... :)

who | cut -f1 -d" "

Re: regular expression

Kent Ostby — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:13:28 GMT

who -q will give you just a list of user names although there multiple per line.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby