in reply to Re^3: parsing output of UNIX `who` command
in thread parsing output of UNIX `who` command

Er ... yes.

$ /usr/bin/who -q # You run 'who -q' and get ... anomonk root # One or more lines of space-separated user names # users=2 # Followed by a summary line $ # And back to the prompt

If there are lots of users on a system, who -q will output multiple lines of users rather than wrapping one long line. It looks like it assumes a terminal width of 80.

Cheers,

JohnGG