On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:14:07 +0800, Jason Wong wrote:
either use PHP to parse out the entirety of
the output or make your command pipe its
output to other commands such as sed & awk
before it gets to PHP.
> w | tail +3 | awk '{print $1,$3,$5}'
Jeff
> On Thursday 23 January 2003 00:10, Greg Chagnon wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to get certain parts of the output from an exec of
>> a certain command? For example...if I run "w" I get this output:
>>
>> [root@Lunar]:~> w
>> 11:02am up 56 days, 17:39, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
>> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>> root pts/0 brpt-sh6-port214 11:01am 0.00s 0.27s 0.06s w
>>
>> Now what if I just want the infor on the 3rd line, and info about anyone
>> else who is logged in, such as the username, the host, and the time
>> without getting all the uptime and the header info? Thanks!
>
> exec() 'returns' the output of the command in an array. Just extract from
> the array whatever line(s) you need.
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