csh use of grep | tr commands
Steve O'Hara-Smith
steve at sohara.org
Mon Aug 10 06:41:42 UTC 2020
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 21:35:12 -0400
Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 9:27 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> > Ernie Luzar writes:
> >
> > > Double quotes are giving me trouble.
> > >
> > > I have a file with a line in it like this
> > > ip4="10.111.098.2"
> > > I want to get just the ip address
...
> > Would awk perhaps be a better tool?
> >
>
> Complete overkill for what he wants to do.
>
> He wants to bang a nail in thus only needs a hammer he does not need a
> nail gun for only one nail.
<fx: click>I'll just pack the perl interpreter up again then</fx>
Seriously though I'd go with cut.
$ echo 'ip4="10.111.098.2"' | cut -d\" -f2
10.111.098.2
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