>This is really a silly question, but ...........
>
>I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The lines are sorted
>by the first column, which are always 0,1,2,3,4,...,60,61,62,63,64. I
>treid doing something like:
>cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "8" but it returns *every* line with an
>8. How can I do this without going through a loop?
>robert canary
cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "^8"
Will grab any line that STARTS with an 8. If there is a space after the
8, you can then use "^8 " to keep line 88 or 888, etc. from being found.
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