Thursday, December 20, 2001, 4:02:00 AM, KeN ClarK wrote: > right now i do
> w | head -1 > and get what's below my signature. I want to clean that up, cutting it > after the # of users, so that everything after AND including the third > comma is removed from that line. Then take that and add it to my signature > script. i can either send it to a new file and cat that into the signature > script, or figure out a way to write my script over in perl. right now > it's just a simple bash thing of 4 lines. my question is how can i read > the output of w | head -1 into a file, and then remove all after the 3rd > comma, to include the comma, and have that saved in a file? > if there's a better way to do this, please advise. (after ghosting on this > list for awhile, I see how there's alot of ways to do anything...) also, > i'd like more or less pointers so i can kludge through this one myself. i see you got lots of answers, but in the spirit of TMTOWTDI, seeing as you say you're on a linux box you might want to look at the file /proc/loadavg, which has the load information in there. also if you've got a copy of the cookbook around have a look at recipe 16.22 which has some interesting stuff about using named pipes for .sig files. named pipes are good for .sig files... -- Best Regards, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
