porsche@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (John Milton) (03/07/91)
I seem to remember that while browsing through the O'Reilly Programming Perl book, I chanced on a short perl script for reading /etc/utmp. At the time, I said to myself, "That's interesting, I might use it someday". Well, someday came yesterday, and I can't for the life of me find that script again (there is no utmp entry in the index, I don't have the manuscript online so I can't grep for it, and I'm not yen proficient enough in perl to reproduce it). Short of reading the book backwards, I probably won't find it either. Tell me I'm not crazy, tell me it's in there, (tell me the page too please). John Milton porsche@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (03/08/91)
In article <100180001@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> porsche@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (John Milton) writes:
:
: I seem to remember that while browsing through the O'Reilly Programming Perl
: book, I chanced on a short perl script for reading /etc/utmp. At the time, I
: said to myself, "That's interesting, I might use it someday". Well, someday
: came yesterday, and I can't for the life of me find that script again (there
: is no utmp entry in the index, I don't have the manuscript online so I can't
: grep for it, and I'm not yen proficient enough in perl to reproduce it). Short
: of reading the book backwards, I probably won't find it either. Tell me I'm
: not crazy, tell me it's in there, (tell me the page too please).
Perhaps you are remembering the who program in the eg/ subdirctory of the
distribution. I don't recall any utmp references in the book, offhand.
Larry