[ILUG] Identifying telnet connections?

[Paul Jakma]

> Relating to your awk problem...
> 
> if you do something like 
> who | awk '/'$USER'/' {print $6} ' 
> the $USER gets expanded into the awk command. 
> 	(you can muck this approach into your requirement) 
> 
of course... doh!

> Even better - 
>  export Myip=`who | awk '/'$USER'/ {print substr(substr
> ($6,2),1,length($6)
> - 2 ) }' | tail -1`
> 
> That will strip out the braces either side of the IP address aswell 
> feel free to add a ":0" string to the end as you like !!
> 
damm forgot about the X display bit... :),

> Of course "who am i" or "who -m" (thanks again ILUG) would be better. 
> But thats academic. 
> 
what happens if you have two telnet connections open? You don't have to
worry about braces with last either.