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Name: darylzero
Date: May 26, 2004 at 18:04:28 Pacific
Subject: Script Help
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: intel 1gig
Comment:

I just started teaching myself unix scripting and need some major help.

What i need to do is take this information from my unix system (pretend like there is more people logged in):

18:21:53 up 68 days, 4:23, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.11, 0.04
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
d1234567 pts/0 student 6:21pm 0.00s 0.06s 0.01s w
[d12345678@puma d12345678]$

and have the output look like this

===========================================================
$ disp_name
1 ) d0035356 User = alex balogun
2 ) d0035318 User = mark cullen
3 ) d9900141 User = andrew kim
4 ) d0064509 User = george petrov
5 ) d0035024 User = hakimah malik
6 ) d0033997 User = richard becker
7 ) d0031284 User = timothy schneider
8 ) d0029651 User = amanda knop
9 ) d0036993 User = david vastola
10 ) d0027750 Multiple users for that user ID
User = stoyan martinov
User = odise prifti
11 ) d0033740 User = muhammadsaadrafi khan
12 ) d0030182 User = learon reid
13 ) d0035818 User = anthony pontone
14 ) d0034645 User = dax patel
15 ) d0039717 User = erik alm
$
=========================================================


This is what I have so far, I just don't know what to do.

va=$(w -hl | awk '{print $1}')
echo "Users = $va"

for names in $va
do
echo "User = $names"

awk -F: '$1 ~ /????????/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd

Thank you very much


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Response Number 1
Name: Dlonra
Date: May 28, 2004 at 08:24:41 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

google:
shell scripting tutorial

Depending on your shell:
man ksh
man bash


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