On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:14 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a script and the output of that script is currently > > > > UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: "CRITICAL emcpowera, 2 dead, 2 > > alive, possible LUN tresspass or HBA failure" > > > > is there anyway to cut off the text ' > > UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: ' > > > > so that i get whatever comes AFTER that ? > > Pipe the output through: > > sed -e 's/^UCD-SNMP-MIB::[^:]*: //' Or pipe it through "cut -d : -f 4" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ----------------------------------------------------------------------