if else help in a script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a script that displays whether a user is online or not and if they are it displays how long and if not it displays the last time they were logged on.

Now I am trying to make it so if a user is not recognized it simply says the user has never been online.

this is what I have so far

if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
        echo "You must supply a username."
        exit 1
fi


if
 who|grep -qw ^$1>/dev/null 2>&1
then
     who | grep $1 | awk '{print $1 " has been online since " $3 " "$4}'
else
    last | grep $1 | awk '{print $1 "is not online and last logged in " $5 " " $6 "  " $9 $
fi

My question is in the last if else statement, can I just add an elseif and basically search 'last' for the user and if it returns nothing display an error message? Something like this (this doesn't work just what I had in mind)

$
elif [ $? -eq 1]
then
        echo "$1 is not online and has never logged in."
fi

Any help is appreciated thank you

2 
if [ `last | grep $1 | wc -l` -eq 0 ]
then
   echo "$1 is not online and has never logged in."
else
   echo "$1 has been online since `last | grep $1 | tail -1 | awk ' { print $3 " " $4 } '`"
fi
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