Re: Get command line output

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.