2008/3/7, 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}' > Sorry for the intromision, but I tried it and didn't work :S Greets! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -