On 06/02/2010, at 3:30 AM, Bobak, Mark wrote: > Well, since no one else has answered yet, I’ll show you my (really ugly) > solution: > [oracle@msrac201 ~]$ cat log.txt > SQL> @.[%OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN%] > SP2-0310: unable to open file ".[FALSE]" > SQL> spool off > [oracle@msrac201 ~]$ cat log.txt|tail -2|head -1|awk -F[ '{ print$2 }'|awk > -F] '{ print $1}' > FALSE > > Yeah, I’m no awk or sed genius. I use tail and head to get only the second > line, then I need to use awk twice to parse out around each of the ‘[‘ and > ‘]’. Yes, I’m sure there’s a better and cleaner way. How about just awk? awk -F '[\\[\\]]' '/^SP2-/ {print $2}' log.txt Look for any lines starting with SP2-, split based on '[' or ']' as a field delimiter and print the second field. Tom-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l