editing uptime output with sed?
Vince Hoffman
vince.hoffman at uk.circle.com
Sat May 24 11:15:55 PDT 2003
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "lbland" <lbland at vvi.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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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