How do i awk the ip address from cat /etc/hosts ?

[farley99]

How do i awk the ip address from cat /etc/hosts ?

 

[Ygor]

awk '{ if (match($0,"^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}&quot)
print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH) }' /etc/hosts

 

[johngiggs]

Or you could use something simple like:

awk '/^[0-9]/{print $1}' /etc/hosts

John