On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:29:54AM, Nick Rout wrote: > what is the best way to parse out the first load average figure, ie in > this case 18.73
'awk' accepts an "array" of field separators -F'[fsfsfs]' between square
brackets so the required field $12 can be printed out. Not mentioned in the
manual.
echo $THAT_LINE | awk -F'[,:]' '{print $12}'
