[Gllug] parsing command output

[- Tethys]

On 2/14/07, Gavin White <white.gavin at gmail.com> wrote:

> |strings      #remove blank lines

Yeesh! Use the right tool for the job (and strings is not that tool, here):

    sed '/^$/d'

Also, blank lines may well be valid output in this case, and removing
them could cause problems.

As Alain did, I'd just do the whole thing in sed (albeit a bit more
concisely than his):

    foo 2>&1 >/dev/null | sed -r '7,8!d;s/^ *([^ ]+ +){3}//;s/ .*//'

Tet
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