> Hi Klaus, > > Thanks for the /proc/cmd tip. > > I extracted the commandline options like this: > > ip=`grep ip /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*ip=//' |sed 's/ .*//'` > > The first grep is there to return a blank line incase the option is not > present at all (else the second sed would return the portion of the line > after the first whitespace even though ip= was not present). > > The two seds split up the work, the first returns the entire command line > past ip=, and the second then retum the first part up to the first blank > space. Since all the command line options are space delimted, this works > just fine. > > Busybox doesn't include awk, otherwise it would have been easier to just > use that. But awk is derived from sed, so sed does fine as well. > Christian - here is the sort of syntax I use to do that (just in case anyone likes other ways, too) if grep -i -q "ip=[0-9]" /proc/cmdline then ip=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*ip=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` fi The sed expression returns a copy of everything -after- "ip=" up to but not including the first blank space (so, the value you want). Klaus