[CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

[Stephen Harris]

I didn't see the original, so I'm jumping in here...

> >Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing.
>
> >If /proc/cmdline looks like
> >
> >option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option  
> >4 ...
> >
> >How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline.

This should work with bash/ksh or similar shells

  a=$(cat /proc/cmdline)
  a=${a##*ks=http://}
  a=${a%%/*}
  echo $a

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rgds
Stephen