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Old 03-12-2014
Replace extra Characters
The result of following command give me output which i further need to make some cosmetic change.

Code:
grep -E "ERROR.*Session" wf_Load_25.log | awk '{print $14}'

Output:
[s_Load_XMLFile_Into_HashCustLoan_25]:

Expected Output:
s_Load_XMLFile_Into_HashCustLoan_25

Please help, i am using bash
# 2  
Old 03-12-2014
Try:
Code:
grep -E "ERROR.*Session" wf_Load_25.log | awk '{print substr($14, 2, length($14) - 3)}'

Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-12-2014 at 04:02 PM.. Reason: Fix field to be processed.
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Old 03-12-2014
Code:
awk '/ERROR.*Session/{gsub(/[][]|:/,x,$14);print $14}' wf_Load_25.log

 
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