Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:15:48 +0100 From: "Vince Hoffman" <vince.hoffman@uk.circle.com> To: "lbland" <lbland@vvi.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: editing uptime output with sed? Message-ID: <003501c32220$86a8c090$1600020a@uk.circle.com> References: <71D66F70-8E10-11D7-A088-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
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uptime | sed -e "s/.*\,.*\,.*\,.*\,\(.*\)\,.*/\1/"
note: you could do it much better with awk ( uptime | awk -F , '{ print
$5 }' )
ps not very free bsd related, you'll do better on an shell scripting group
list
Vince
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From: "lbland" <lbland@vvi.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: editing uptime output with sed?
> hi-
>
> sorry for the generic question...
>
> 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)?
>
> TIA-
>
> -lance
>
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