Klaus Steden wrote: >>Hello, all - >> >>What's the weapon of choice when extracting values from /proc/cmdline? >>grep, cut, awk, sed? perl? I don't know. I'm just trying to get a >>better idea of how I can use cmdline. >> > > Dan, > > I typically use grep to test for the presence of what I'm looking to match, > and then sed to extract it. Options in /proc/cmdline are usually of the form > <name> or <name>=<value>. So, for instance ... > > -- cut -- > if grep -i -q "class=[a-zA-Z0-9]" /proc/cmdline > then > CLASS=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*class=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` > fi > -- cut -- > > hth, > Klaus > > Klaus - It does help, thanks. I just want to make sure that I am using cmdline to it's full potential. Thanks -dant
