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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting all but a regex using sed, tr, cut etc Post 302550892 by Pureferret on Sunday 28th of August 2011 12:28:28 PM
Old 08-28-2011
Thanks Yazu I'll give it a go, I think I can see whats happening.

Xbin, really struggling to see what you've done...Smilie
 

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REMOTE-TTY(1)						      General Commands Manual						     REMOTE-TTY(1)

NAME
remote-tty - connect to a ttysrv serial console instance SYNOPSIS
remote-tty [-l LoginName] [-7] [-r] socket DESCRIPTION
remote-tty is the frontend for the remote-tty daemon. It is normally invoked using rconsole. It connects to the backend ttysrv process over a Unix socket and allows the user to view what's happening on the serial console and interact with it. OPTIONS
socket The full path to the Unix socket for the ttysrv instance to connect to. -l loginname Specify the login name to use. Defaults to the username if not specified. -r Set restricted mode; don't allow changing of logging status, suspending of remote-tty or setting of line options. -7 Set 7bit mode. SEE ALSO
rconsole(1), remote-tty(1), ttysrv(8). AUTHOR
rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>. This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). May 23, 2006 REMOTE-TTY(1)
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