thanks

[thomas j kwon]

In article <14404 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> I wrote:
>I'm a novice hacker who is trying to use 'sed' to extract "certain
>string" of "certain column" of "certain line" of a result of a "certain
>command". 
>Since that sounds too confusing, here is what I really mean. By typing
>'ruptime' at the prompt, I get something like the following :
--------------------------  and so on ----------------------------------

Thanks to all who replied to my 'sed' question.
I received about 30 different solutions to the problem. I never
expected this much help, and I'm touched.

                                            Tom.

P.S. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
     (This includes the non-hackers as well :-)