[CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

Fri Mar 7 16:02:09 UTC 2008
Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com>

> Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing.

Me neither, Perl is my thing, and with regular expressions this would  
be trivial.

> 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 is probably not the best approach, but it should work:

   awk -F "ks=" /proc/cmdline '{print $2}' | awk -F / '{print $3}'

On the other hand, if I can call awk, I could also call Perl...

Alfred