# https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/nmrpipe/conversations/messages/2382
showApod test.ft2 | grep "REMARK Automated Noise Std Dev in Processed Data:" | awk '{print $9} '
This will print two numbers, first is noise estimate for the spectrum, second is noise estimate for the time-domain ... try it without the "-noverb" option to see more info.
showApod -in test.ft2 -noverb
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