LINUX: Send the last 3 lines of the output of the who command to a file called out1?
 

I recently learned about Filters in my Linux class. However this is throwing me off. I know what the who command is and about the tail command but how do I send it to a out1? And where does who fit into this?

is it

who tail +3 > out1 ?

Any help is appreciated.

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As written, you're passing "tail" and "+3" as arguments to "who". What you need instead is to run "who" by itself, and redirect its output to the input of "tail". In Linux there are two types of I/O redirection, ">" and ">>" redirects output to a file, which you have done correctly, while "|" redirects output to the input of another process. You need to stick a "|" between "who" and "tail" so that the "tail" program can process the output of "who", rather than passing the literal string "tail" as an argument to "who".

spews error.
Did you notice?

and
output are essentially equal result here, so unless the who utility is somehow 'different' on your system,
should do it.
Never ever saw before now.

See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html