On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:08 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > foo==>'UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: "CRITICAL emcpowera, 2 dead, 2 alive, possible LUN tresspass or HBA failure"' > echo ${foo#*STRING} To the casual observer, the above would make a helluva tagline or printed T-shirt. It looks like everything ever associated with computer-speak on one line. Tom Cruise would die to type something like that in "Mission Impossible". Well, Tom doesn't know shit about command line... well, I don't know much either, but at least I hang here! -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================