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Date:      Sat, 24 May 2003 13:12:42 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        lbland <lbland@vvi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editing uptime output with sed?
Message-ID:  <20030524181242.GK46907@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <71D66F70-8E10-11D7-A088-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
References:  <71D66F70-8E10-11D7-A088-0030659A531A@vvi.com>

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In the last episode (May 24), lbland said:
> how do I take uptime output:
>
>  1:45PM  up 6 days,  3:58, 11 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.24, 0.21
>
> and get the 2nd to last value with sed? (how do I get sed to output
> 0.24 to stdout)?

uptime | sed -Ee 's/.*([0-9]+.[0-9]+),.*$/\1/'

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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