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How would I write a script that takes the output of the 'uptime' command and cuts out everything but the uptime. ie gets rid of load averages and current time etc

Advance Thanks (Sorry for the n00bish question)

To get what I have on the front page from the uptime command I do:

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uptime | tr -s ' ' | cut -f3-7 -d' ' | cut -f1-2 -d','


which gives me this:

up 506 days, 1:09

Not sure if that's how you want it, if not you should get the idea...

I do indeed, as usual, top advice

Or you could have done something like:

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echo "scale=2;`cut -f1 -d' ' /proc/uptime`/60/60/24" | bc