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Old 12-17-2007
I want to get timestamp from a text file using ksh

[12/17 07:25:08,005] for example : 07:25

Thanks
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Old 12-17-2007
Here is one way of doing what you want:

Code:
 echo "[12/17 07:25:08,005]" | cut -c 8-12

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