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[Michael P. Soulier]

    echo "gateway: 192.168.0.1" | awk '{print $2}'
    192.168.0.1

    Mike

On 09/03/02 Dave Lewis did speaketh:

> If I said I had a chunk of text for instance
> 
> gateway: 192.168.0.1
> 
> how would you go about trimming it down to just
> 
> 192.168.0.1
> 
> I've plugged away at awk and I'm getting absolutely nowhere
> 
> 
> ALSO, in unix is there anyway to incude a colon in a variable ?  when I 
> assign a variable to the string above
> it seems to get lost at the :
> 
> ???
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Dave
> 
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