[ale] Need AWK Guru input

[Geoffrey Myers]

The Don Lachlan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:49:35PM -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> The Don Lachlan wrote:
>>>   $ lsb_release -r | cut -d'.' -f1
>> Your script produces:
>> Release:        5
>> Whereas, the second returns:
>> 5.4
>> I'm pretty sure the OP didn't want the 'Release:' in the output.
>> I think the OP needs to be more specific as to what they want.
> 
> Awesome. Thanks for the correction. I misread something earlier (I haz no
> RHEL boxes to test on today) and didn't consider the text leading the ':'.
> 
> That colon is a BIG gimme for parsing, though the whitespace sucks. I'd say
> it's still much better than keeping track of syntax in /etc/redhat-release.
> 
>   $ lsb_release -r | cut -d ':' -f2 | tr -d "\011" | cut -d '.' -f1
> 
> Or, if the whitespace bugs you (it bugs me):
> 
>   $ lsb_release -r | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -d '.' -f1

lsb_release -r | awk -F '[:.]' '{print $(NF-1)}'

:)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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