Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok. I'm just starting to use AWK and I have a question. Here's what I'm trying to do:

uname -n returns the following on my box:

ftsdt-svsi20.si.sandbox.com

I want to pipe this to an AWK statement and make it only print:

svsi20

I tried:

uname -n | awk '{ FS = "." ; print $1 }'

But that prints:

ftsdt-svsi20

How do I get it to exclude everything before the "-" and everything after the "."?

Try

uname -n | awk -F "[.-]" '{ print $1 }'

How about using this...

uname -n | awk '{ FS = "." ; print $1 }' | cut -d '-' -f2

or

uname -n | cut -d '.' -f1| cut -d '-' -f2

the above will give you the o/p svsi20
Hope your objective will be met!

-ilan

That gave me:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

as always..... if on Solaris - use 'nawk' instead.

wow - the cut command. Why didn't I think of that,..works like a charm. Thanks a bunch.