> 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