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Old 11-21-2008
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awk and sed examples:

Code:
echo "ECR/CHQ/GBP/12345.out"| sed 's!^\([^\/]*\/[^\/]*\/[^\/]*\)\/.*!\1!'
ECR/CHQ/GBP

echo "ECR/CHQ/GBP/12345.out"| awk -F/ 'BEGIN{OFS="/"} {print $1,$2,$3}'
ECR/CHQ/GBP