[SOLVED] Need some help with sed

[Dr Small]

I was never very talented with sed, and understanding it has always be tough. But I have a homemade script here and here is what my output is:

drsmall@darkghost:~$ netload | awk '/RX/ {print $2}'
bytes:905512961


Well, I want to take sed and remove "bytes:" from that output so only the numbers are the output and have tried this:
netload | awk '/RX/ {print $2}' | sed '/bytes:/ d'

But I don't get any output now. Is there anyone who knows sed that can help?

Dr Small

[markd]

It would be

sed 's/bytes://'

i.e. substitute the string 'bytes:' with nothing.

[Dr Small]

Aha! That did the trick! Thanks :)
I was reading on other places, and the more I read, the less it worked and the more confused I became, but what you posted looks quite simple :)

Thanks again.

Dr Small

[ghostdog74]

drsmall@darkghost:~$ netload | awk '/RX/ {print $2}'
bytes:905512961


Well, I want to take sed and remove "bytes:" from that output so only the numbers are the output and have tried this:

you can do everything in awk, why do the unnecessary?

netload | awk '/RX/ { sub(/bytes:/,"",$2);print $2}'