On 14/04/11 19:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: > 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! > | > | As 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, This morning's data: [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat foo <graph caption="Customer: bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx" xaxisname="Figures Shown Reflect Data Usage in the Last 30 Days" yAxisName="Data Usage" bgColor="E3ECF6" showGridBg="1" showCanvas="1" numdivlines="4" decimalPrecision="0" zeroPlaneColor="CCCCCC" zeroPlaneAlpha="40" numberSuffix="MB"> <set name="Actual Usage Upload" value="1094" color="007CC2"/> <set name="Usage Threshold Upload" value="5000" color="9CA279"/> <set name="Actual Usage Download" value="12012" color="007CC2"/> <set name="Usage Threshold Download" value="17000" color="9CA279"/> </graph> [bobg@box9 ~]$ sed -n '/Actual Usage Download/s/.*value="\([^"]*".*/\1/p' < /home/bobg/foo sed: -e expression #1, char 49: Unmatched ( or \( I thought perhaps a permissions problem? [bobg@box9 ~]$ su Password: [root@box9 bobg]# sed -n '/Actual Usage Download/s/.*value="\([^"]*".*/\1/p' < /home/bobg/foo sed: -e expression #1, char 49: Unmatched ( or \( I am not familiar with sed and the commands are overwhelming [to me]. Man sed hasn't helped ... I am interested. Perhaps you can tell me what's wrong? Thanks much. Bob -- 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