On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> > From: Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] grabbing ip address from kickstart pre > >> The thing is if it's in the %pre section, AWK would not have >> been installed yet? > > I wouldn't have suggested it if it would not have worked. > Awk *is* available in %pre. As the op noted, tr is not available > but several tools like awk,gawk,grep,fgrep,egrep,wget etc are. That's interesting Joe. So where are these tools being gotten from if the RPM packages are not installed yet? Is there some way to find out exactly what tools are available for use in the %pre section please? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------