> Hello, all - > > I use the following example of code in my kickstart file, to get values > from /proc/cmdline to use later on during the install: > > if grep -i -q "mystring[a-zA-Z0-9]" /proc/cmdline > then > MYSTRING=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*mystring=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` > fi > > I think Klaus in fact gave this to me. However, I've ran into a few > problems. It seems that this does not like strings with periods in > them, such as an IP address. > > Since I know a bit less than nothing about regular expressions, I was > hoping that someone could give me a hand with this. I need to modify it > to allow me to assign a dotted quad string to the MYSTRING variable. > > Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. > Hello again, Dan, How about ... if grep -iq "mystring=[a-zA-Z0-9]" /proc/cmdline then MYSTRING=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*mystring=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` fi Quick testing with sh on Linux tells me that it should preserve the dots. It should just be deleting everything up to, but not including 'mystring=' and whatever follows that, and then deleting everything after that string, and returning the match. REs can be tricky, though, so holler if you get stuck. Klaus
