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Robert Heffernan wrote:
>> This one works ok:
> pppstats | sed 1d | awk '{print $1" "$7"\n"}'
> the sed bit strips the line that contains the heards (such as 'IN', 'OUT'
> etc.) from it
>> I have another short question. Is there a way to stick the output of said
> command into a variable and then return the said variable to the child
> process of the srript.
>> I'm actually running this script from a C program (using system()). The
> only thing I can think of at the moment is using
> pppstats | sed 1d | awk '{print $1" "$7"\n"}' > somefile
> and then in the C proggy, after running the script snarf the contents of
> somefile and deal with it.
> I fear this might create a lot of disk activity if I had the C prog doing
> this regularily (i.e. - almost constantly)
>> is there a better way?
>> thanks again
>> bob
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