Compare the value in between square brackets in file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I wanted to compare the value inside the Squre bracket after Colon ( : ) based on any value(seperated by or operator | ) inside the variable Thread and if match found then wnated to store in output file

Input file :

20140320 00:08:43.918 INO  [WebContainer : 35] - Corporate hub [indr] is 
20140320 00:08:43.918 DEMO  [testing : 125] - anyvalue lab lab
20140320 00:08:43.918 INFO  [anydata : 5] - Remote Worker indr is
20140320 00:08:43.918 any  [debug : 51] - Activity is: [Ljava.lang.]
20140320 00:08:43.918 dump  [interprit : 125] - Activity from form is: [All]
20140320 00:08:43.918 WEB  [Web : 21] - Activity Status from form is: [All]
20140320 00:08:43.918 THink  [WebCont : 5] - anything

I tried with following code but not getting expected output. Need help on this.

INPUTFILE = "TEMP.TXT"
Outputfile = "Result.txt"
Thread = "35|5|125"
#grep -Po '(?<=\[).*?(?=\])' $INPUTFILE >> $Outputfile
grep -Po '(?<=\[)$Thread(?=\])' $INPUTFILE >> $Outputfile

Expected Output file : based on Thread = "35|5|125"

20140320 00:08:43.918 INO  [WebContainer : 35] - Corporate hub [indr] is Y
20140320 00:08:43.918 DEMO  [testing : 125] - anyvalue lab lab
20140320 00:08:43.918 INFO  [anydata : 5] - Remote Worker indr is
20140320 00:08:43.918 dump  [interprit : 125] - Activity from form is: [All]
20140320 00:08:43.918 THink  [WebCont : 5] - anything

Thanks in advance

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I'm confused - what do you expect to get? You show output you did not want, it seems.

Note: grep -Po '(?<=\[)$Thread(?=\])' is surrounded by ' ' (single quotes) so that shell cannot expand the variable $Thread

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Duplicate: Thread closed.
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