Morning Everyone:
Should have waited another 5 minutes before posting. I got the answer to
this. Here is what I needed to do:
DHCP_SERVER=`pump -s | grep "Boot" | cut -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 3`
- Mike
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> Morning Everyone:
>
> I'm stuck on a small problem. I'm trying to parse out the IP address of
> my DHCP server for a variable in a script. From the command line, I've
> gotten this far:
>
> pump -s | grep "Boot" | cut -f 2
>
> This yields:
>
> Boot server 24.128.1.34
>
> Of course, when I looked at the output of the pump -s command, the only
> field I needed the IP address from was this, and, of course, there is no
> ":" to mark as a delimiter. Notice all of the other fields have it. My
> question is, how do I grab the IP address and not the other information?
>
> I'm going to eventually need to assign this to a variable in my ipchains
> firewall script, so I'm thinking the correct syntax will be:
>
> variable_name = `pump -s | grep "Boot" | cut -f 2 ...`
>
> Any ideas?
>
> - Mike
>
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