On 13Apr2011 16:11, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On 13/04/11 15:47, Dave Ihnat wrote: | > [ grep | sed approach ... ] | | [bobg@box9 ~]$ grep "Actual Usage Download" /home/bobg/foo | sed | -e "s/^.*value=\"//" -e "s/\" .*$//" | 12667 | | Aha, that works. It's so much easier when you can find someone | who knows how! | | I said I can muddle through from there, that was the hard part. Never forget that sed can do what grep does, so (untested, one line): sed -n '/Actual Usage Download/s/.*value="\([^"]*".*/\1/p' < /home/bobg/foo Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "Neomort" : Brain-dead human, kept alive for medical purposes. "Medicine Lecturer" : Brain-dead human, kept alive for medical purposes. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines