[ale] Need AWK Guru input

[The Don Lachlan]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:17:33AM -0400, Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> Something like this?
> cat /etc/redhat-release |awk  '/release/ { for (x=1;x<=NF;x++) if
> ($x~"release") print $(x+1) }'

Wouldn't 'lsb_release -r' hand back the same info?

-L

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I am working on adding servers to my Satellite server, and I like to
> > be able to get in with a script and call on the following
> >
> > /etc/redhat_release
> >
> > But I only want to get the number, so that I can see if it RHEL 4 or
> > 5, I been trying to do with awk, but I am not able to get anything,
> > what is the best way to only put numbers?
> >
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