On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:43:39PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: > > | iostat -c 300 1 | awk '!/[a-zA-Z]|^$/ {print $1}' > > This doesn't seem to work for me... awk tells me: > > awk syntax error at source line 1 > *** > /[a: Event not found.
That's because you're using tcsh, and the exlcamation point is being interpreted as part of a shell history reference. You can turn this into a shell *script*, or just run it in bash or /bin/sh. Or if you absolutely must run it in csh/tcsh, escape the ! with a \ (yes, even inside single quotes). > Not sure how to allow awk to delete two top rows of iostat... other that > the grep option -v. Does not seem to be working in awk. You could try something like: iostat -c 300 | awk 'BEGIN {getline;getline;} $1~/^[0-9]+$/ {print $1}' or for something even lighter-weight: iostat -c 300 | sed -Ene 's/^ +//;s/ .*//;/^[0-9]+$/p' -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it.canada http://www.it.ca/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"