Re: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines

[Brendan Strejcek]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

> I have a lot of these little pipelines, all culled from the little
> shell scripts I'm trying to get rid of so it looks like the kludgy
> special variable it is.. Which doesn't seem to work either.

You might be able to replace most of the awk '{print $1}'-type calls
with "cut" invocations:

    $ cut -d" " -f1 </proc/loadavg
    0.00

Best,
Brendan

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