editing uptime output with sed?

[Dan Nelson]

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/'

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	Dan Nelson
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