On 15Apr2011 04:34, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | 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? No, an unmatched bracket in the expression. Try this: sed -n '/Actual Usage Download/s/.*value="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' < /home/bobg/foo All on one line, if the above gets folded. Note the closing \) I've added. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What the hell is that? Sounds like Cole Porter to me, sir. - _Tank Girl_ -- 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