On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:31:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:32 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> The head suggestion won't work, because in the above example, it is the >> second line I want. > > A trivial excercise for old Shell hands, e.g. > > program | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 > > or > > program | sed -n 2p > > poc Yes, but the dig command sometimes returns the result on the first line, and sometimes on the second, so it is necessary to test what you get. Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines