On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:46:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 00:13 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> 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. > > You haven't so far said which of the lines you are interested in. > Perhaps you can use grep on a pattern. > > poc How about: grep "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]" ? Can it be done more concisely? Still, one of the numbers might exceed 255 ... unlikely. 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
