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From: Moody on 26 May 2010 01:39
\w|while read line
do
echo "Line is $Line"
done

above snippet of script does work very well but it doesn't show
complete lines/arguments of w command's output.

like normally I get

smith pts/25 10.10.1.3 11:16 4:33 0.05s 0.04s ssh -l
teether busybox

and with above script I get only:

smith pts/25 10.10.1.3 11:16 4:33 0.05s 0.04s ssh -l teeth

all lines from my script show lines of equal width

Any help.

Regards,
BB
From: Barry Margolin on 26 May 2010 03:15
In article
<9431f0db-13a8-422d-9e2c-dcf438bb4711(a)c22g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
Moody <nasir.mahmood(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> \w|while read line
> do
> echo "Line is $Line"
> done
>
> above snippet of script does work very well but it doesn't show
> complete lines/arguments of w command's output.
>
> like normally I get
>
> smith pts/25 10.10.1.3 11:16 4:33 0.05s 0.04s ssh -l
> teether busybox
>
> and with above script I get only:
>
> smith pts/25 10.10.1.3 11:16 4:33 0.05s 0.04s ssh -l teeth
>
> all lines from my script show lines of equal width
>
> Any help.
>
> Regards,
> BB

It sounds like your version of the "w" command alters its output format
depending on whether it's writing to a terminal or not. Check the man
page to see if there's an option that overrides this behavior.

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