Re: [cobalt-users] OT: Showing uptime via web

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cody Watkins <codyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to show the number of days my RaQ3 has been up for in a Perl Cgi
> script. I found a script to call the following up:
>
> 6:58pm  up 43 days,  3:38,  1 user,  load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05
>
> Does anybody know how I can cut everything but the number of days out via a
> command I can put in the script?

Since the output of 'uptime' is going to always be of the same format you can
use regular expressions to pull out what you need.

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}