scripting help

[Steven W. Orr]

On Friday, Sep 29th 2006 at 16:59 +0100, quoth Tom Brown:

=>Hi
=>
=>I have a script and the output of that script is currently
=>
=>UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: "CRITICAL emcpowera, 2 dead, 2 alive,
=>possible LUN tresspass or HBA failure"
=>
=>is there anyway to cut off the text '
=>UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: '
=>
=>so that i get whatever comes AFTER that ?
=>
=>thanks

You're probably going to get some youngh whippersnapper who has a solution 
which will involve conspicuous resource consumption, like the use of sed.


foo==>'UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: "CRITICAL emcpowera, 2 dead, 2 alive, possible LUN tresspass or HBA failure"'
echo ${foo#*STRING}

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