Shell Programming and Scripting

inpLine=`grep -h ">>>" sampleFile`

#to extract "Total: 16 Alarms"
varTotal=`echo $inpLine | cut -d"(" -f1 | sed -e "s/>>> //g"`

#to extract value of critical in $valCrit
varCrit=`echo $inpLine |cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d")" -f1 | cut -d"," -f1`
valCrit=`echo $varCrit | cut -d" " -f1`

#to extract value of major in $varMajor
varMajor=`echo $inpLine |cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d")" -f1 | cut -d"," -f2`
valMajor=`echo $varMajor | cut -d" " -f1`

#!/bin/bash
rpt=/home/user/alarms
awk '{ if($0 ~ /^>>>/) {print substr($5, 2), $7)} }' alarms | read var1 var2
echo "var1= $var1  var2= $var2"

# eval $(awk -F'[()]' '/Total:/{split($2,a,",| ");print a[2]"="a[1]";"a[5]"="a[4]}' file)
# echo $Critical
0
# echo $Major
9

awk ... | { read var1 var2; echo "var1=$var1  var2=$var2"; }

$ cat test_text.txt
Nr of active alarms are: 16
================================================================================================
Sever Specific Problem                    Cause                     Mo-Reference
================================================================================================
Maj   DcDevice_DeviceDisabled             replaceable_unit_problem  Pool=DcDevice,DcDevice=51 
Maj   NbapDedicated_RncRbsControlLinkDown transmission_error        Iub=012,NbapDedicated=1 
Maj   NbapDedicated_RncRbsControlLinkDown transmission_error        Iub=586,NbapDedicated=1 
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=012U1   
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=012U2   
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=012U3   
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=586U1   
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=586U2   
Maj   Cell_ServiceUnavailable        unavailable               Cell=586U3   
Warn  Cell_NbapReconfigurationFailure performance_degraded      Cell=032V2   
Warn  Cell_NbapReconfigurationFailure performance_degraded      Cell=727U1   
Warn  Cell_NbapReconfigurationFailure performance_degraded      Cell=727U2   
Warn  Cell_NbapReconfigurationFailure performance_degraded      Cell=727U3   
Warn  VC ete Alarm Indication Signal      alarm_indication_signal   VccTp=011
Warn  VC ete Alarm Indication Signal      alarm_indication_signal   VccTp=322 
>>> Total: 16 Alarms (0 Critical, 9 Major)
$ eval $(awk -F'[()]' '/Total:/{split($2,a,",| ");print a[2]"="a[1]";"a[5]"="a[4]}' test_text.txt)
$ echo "Critical = $Critical   Major = $Major"
Critical = 0   Major = 9
$