parsing aline

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi
i have a line like "start protocol:","Received message:","Received SIGNON req","SIGNON_REPLY->SIGNON"

i need to remove the commas and i want to read start protocol: as a single string

please help

thanks in advance
Satya

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Use maybe sed or tr to remove the commas, and maybe cut, awk or sed to get your wanted string.

An example for example :slight_smile: has been answered to a former post of you:

For deleting a character, best try it out, use it yourself. It is very easy.

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> echo "start protocol:","Received message:","Received SIGNON req","SIGNON_REPLY->SIGNON" | tr -d " " | tr "," " "
startprotocol: Receivedmessage: ReceivedSIGNONreq SIGNON_REPLY->SIGNON