cut

[X11]

I have been trying to work out 'cut'..

But there are no examples in the manpage, I want to get the last bit from this...

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz"
(Just the speed in mhz)

I cant work out the manpage, it doesnt really explain anything.

[Tux]

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' | cut -d":" -f2

That is what you want, although it would return a rating to 3 decimal places.

If you would like an integer, use this:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d"." -f1

[Void Main]

And if you wanted to get rid of the space you could add a "| tr -d ' '" to the end of Tux's pipe.

[X11]

Cool, I can fianlly use this to finish my old shell scripted uptimes project client.