note johngg <p>Perhaps like this?</p> <code> knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ perl -E ' > $input = <<EOI; > 2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0c:29:4e:97:a1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > EOI > > $eth = ( split m{\s*:\s*}, $input )[ 1 ]; > say qq{->$eth<-};' ->eth1<- knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ </code> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-401112"> <p>Cheers,</p><p>JohnGG</p> </div></div> 971746 971746