thanks I 'm sure that if both of you ( Charles and David) are able to - change tyres of a car - build a house
only using sed and sh ;-) Once again thanks for your help Etienne Charlier ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Douthitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LEAF Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] More questions about Datchstein CD 1.0.2 and pppoe > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > > - is it possible to change the root > > > ramdisk size and still booting from > > > the CD ?? > > > > Yes, but you have to burn a new CD, with a different boot-floppy image. > > I thought you COULD change it. Hold down the left shift, and at the > boot: prompt type > > linux ramsize=XXXXX > > ...and that should do it (assuming the default kernel label is > linux)... Of course, you DO have to type it in... > > > > in previous versions of dachstein: > > > ping -c 1 some.dns.name | grep PING | cut -d" ():" -f 3 > > > returned only the ip address > > > 1.2.3.4 > > > in dachstein cd, the same command returns > > > (1.2.3.4): > > > > > > Any idea ?? > > > > The previous cut command was massively broken, and the fact that the above > > usage worked was an artifact of cut's mis-behavior. Try the above on a > > 'normal' linux system and you'll get an error...the delimiter for cut must > > be a single character... > > > > Try using sed instead of cut: > > sed 's/).*//;s/.*(//' > > How about this (for your entire command line): > > ping -c 1 some.dns.name | sed -n '/PING/s/.*(\(.*\)):.*/\1/p' > > ...one sed command, no cut and no grep. > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
