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Old 04-24-2008
need one liner to edit this text...
[root@ilan ~]# cat test
mpath0:253:8:L--w:0:1:2:mpath-2000b080008002158
mpath19:253:7:L--w:0:1:1:mpath-2000b080013002158
mpath21:253:9:L--w:0:1:0:mpath-2000b080015002158
mpath18:253:6:L--w:0:1:1:mpath-2000b080012002158
mpath12:253:1:L--w:0:1:2:mpath-2000b080009002158
[root@ilan ~]#

The above is the i/p and the desired o/p is below...
[root@pillar32 ~]# cat test
mpath0:2000b080008002158
mpath19:2000b080013002158
mpath21:2000b080015002158
mpath18:2000b080012002158
mpath12:2000b080009002158
[root@pillar32 ~]#

tried with cut and then sed...but, don't want to do more piping!!
Thanks in advance.

-ilan
# 2  
Old 04-24-2008
Try this:

Code:
cut -d: -f8 < file

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-24-2008
Code:
sed 's/\([^:]*:\).*-\(.*\)/\1\2/' file

# 4  
Old 04-24-2008
Thanks Radoulov, that works perfect.
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