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# 8  
Old 05-07-2008
I need to handle the following line:

Code:
192.168.0.0 - - [07/May/2008:11:42:31 +0100] "GET /images/top_line.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 51 "https://server.com/caches/themes/html/styles/All.css" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 WHE_SLS" "sbslang=; www-stats=11984687e55.1dd9a88; PD_STATEFUL_d796f17c-15c0-11dd-bb1e-c0a8580aaa77=%2Fwas; JSESSIONID=0000sSm-zPjR_Wd9ZG4yYwMBx7U:12cgh2sq9; sbsmwwindowlist.AGY=%5B%5B%2269848949%22%2C%220%22%2C%22default%22%2C%220%22%2C%221%22%2C%2207114231051%22%2C%220%22%2C%221280%22%2C%22AGY%22%2C%22%22%5D%5D"

and extract the part marked in bold letters.
# 9  
Old 05-07-2008
Assuming the format is constant:

Code:
awk -F";" '{sub(".*:","",$8);print $8}'

Regards
# 10  
Old 05-07-2008
Unfortunately the format is not constant, the position of the JSESSIONID parameter varies.
# 11  
Old 05-07-2008
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

Code:
awk 'NF>1&&$0=$2' FS="JSESSIONID=[^:]*:" RS=";" input

Code:
perl -lne'print $1 while /JSESSIONID=.*?:(.*?);/g' input

# 12  
Old 05-07-2008
Ok, thanks! Both work.
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