sed 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/'
will extract stuff from inside brackets but it'll leave lines with no
brackets untouched
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Patton, Tony wrote:
> I am trying to get the ip address of a user that has logged in via
> telnet.
> I can get this information from the 'who -M' command, which gives me the
> following :
>> xxxxxxx ttyqb Sep 10 11:33
> (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
>> what i want is to get the ip address from within the brackets.
>> any solutions?
>> using Compaq Tru64 btw.
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