On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:35:03 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > 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. I forgot the final + . 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