Pipe the output through: sed -e 's/^UCD-SNMP-MIB::[^:]*: //'
thanks - seems to be OK now can i ask another question I have this at the end of a script to interpret the output code correctly if [ $EXITCODE -eq 0 ]; then echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -v CRITICAL [ $? -eq 1 ] && EXITCODE=2 fi but when the script runs i get this ../libexec/retrieve_custom_snmp: line 84: [: -eq: unary operator expected "CRITICAL emcpowera has 2 dead, 2 alive" can anyone help with this issue thanks