How to find active users in Ubuntu?

Question

With help of the who command we can get active users, I want only the first field such as

user 1
user 2
user 3

Stabledog · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-01T19:49:05.877

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You can get just the user names like so:

who | awk '{print $1}' | sort

Where who lists all logged in users, passes the output to awk which only prints the first section ("column") of text for every line, passes it to sort which sorts the output.

edited Nov 01 '18 at 19:49

answered Feb 26 '14 at 07:08

Stabledog

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Or use sort -u instead of sort | uniq – DK Bose Feb 26 '14 at 11:00
Ok, did not know about that option. (Or knew and forgot!) – Stabledog Feb 26 '14 at 12:52
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You don't need to use awk: who | cut --delimiter=' ' --field=1 | sort --unique (the short version reads: who|cut -d' ' -f1|sort -u). – Paddy Landau Mar 04 '14 at 22:49
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Unix always provides so many ways to skin a cat. Its amazing any cats still have fur. – Stabledog Mar 05 '14 at 02:56
@PaddyLandau Why not put your answer in its own answer? – AmanicA Mar 06 '14 at 23:13

How to find active users in Ubuntu?

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