is this script running on the primary blade?

Problem this snippet solves: Often, for example in an external monitor script, it is desirable for the script to execute only on the primary blade of a VIPRION cluster. Traditionally, in BIG-IP, a s...
Published Oct 29, 2019
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Nov 15, 2019

This returns "2" on both blade 1 and blade 2 of a test cluster running 13.1.1.4, where blade 2 is currently master.

Here's the same in just awk:

/usr/sbin/bladectl -g leds | /bin/awk '/slot.*Primary LED.*solid.*Green*/ {gsub(":","",$2);print $2}'