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From: "Vince Hoffman" <vince.hoffman@uk.circle.com>
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Subject: Re: editing uptime output with sed?
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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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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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