Quoting Viktor Lazlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Daxbert wrote: > > > DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0 > > > > I'm sure there's a shorter, cleaner way...but it works. > > Since you're using awk anyways why not eliminate piping through sed: > > DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{ print $6":0.0" }' >
I used sed to remove the leading and trailing '(' ')' from around the hostname/ip. They do need to be removed, right? --dax To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message