>how can I go about extracting the IP address from with in the %pre section > >I was going to do something like: >cat /proc/cmdline | tr ' ' '\n' | grep ks=http | tr '/' ' ' | awk {' >print $2'} > >Since tr isnt available how else can I do it? Jerry, You ever solve this? You can do this all with awk alone. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos