"Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}')

In the interests of eliminating unneeded commands, did you realise you 
can write this more easily as the following?

  USER=$(who | awk '$2=="ttyS1" { print $1 }')

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         Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

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