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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines