Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:45:18 -0800 From: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> To: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> Cc: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, "" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <1047282318.3e6c428ee6e63@ra.dweebsoft.com>
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Quoting Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>:
>
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Daxbert wrote:
>
> > DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0
> >
> > I'm sure there's a shorter, cleaner way...but it works.
>
> Since you're using awk anyways why not eliminate piping through sed:
>
> DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{ print $6":0.0" }'
>
I used sed to remove the leading and trailing '(' ')' from around the hostname/ip.
They do need to be removed, right?
--dax
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