On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:09:46PM +0100, David Jenkins wrote:
> NB - I don't want to pipe uptime into awk or use a perl script etc,
> I'd much prefer it to be C based.
If you *did* want to do it that way, something like
uptime | sed -e 's/.*: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/'
is handy.
> If any knows where it's hiding (or why it's not there) I'd be very
> grateful if you could share it with me.
Probably because /usr/bin/uptime is a hard link to the /usr/bin/w
binary. I think you want the code from /usr/src/usr.bin/w/w.c.
-T
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