system info script

[Loki57701]

I'm not sure this in the right place, but I didn't see a shell scripting specific forum.

I'm writing a system info script, and I'm having a problem with one particular part.

I'm trying to get the systems processor using:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk '/model name/ {print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8}'

Which returns:

Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz

It's not absolutely necessary, but I'd like to remove the (R)'s if possible - I'm picky.

I've done some experimenting with cut and grep, but I couldn't find anything that worked.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thx

[Toz]

I'm certain it can be done in awk, but I'm not an awk'er. You could do it with sed like this:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk '/model name/ {print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8}' | sed -e 's/.R.//g'

[steeldriver]

The awk equivalent would be 'gsub' I think,

cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk '/model name/ {gsub(/\(R\)/,""); print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8}'

or if you want to replace anything enclosed by parentheses such as (TM) as well as (R), you could try

cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk '/model name/ {gsub(/\([^)]+\)/,""); print $4, $5, $6, $7, $8}'

[Loki57701]

Thank you very much for this!

I'll have to get more in depth with awk and sed. I wasn't even aware of gsub.

{gsub(/\(R\)/,"")

and

{gsub(/\([^)]+\)/,"")

Are a complete mystery to me.. lol.

[steeldriver]

The regex syntax is essentially the same whether you do the actual match in awk or sed, unfortunately yes it does look like an explosion in a punctuation factory, but basically /.../ are the regular expression delimiters (which you already know about), then

\(...\)

are literal parentheses and

[^)]+

means one or more characters excluding right parenthesis so

\([^)]+\)

is a non-greedy way to match any non-empty sequence of characters between parentheses