Sorry I only gave a snipet of the output of the command that runs at the begining of the script.....the command also spits out some stuff that I do not want matched. Check it out: 
bash-2.03$ /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist -summary | mo
+re

**********************************************************************
+*********
MEDIA SUMMARY FOR SERVER sjzbkp004 ON Tue Apr 20 13:07:59 2004
**********************************************************************
+*********

ACTIVE   FULL  SUSPENDED  FROZEN  IMPORTED
  159   1782        0       14        0

Number of NON-ACTIVE media that:
       8 - are non-active and not written yet
            ST0315 (FROZEN)
            ST0306 (FROZEN)
            ST0304 (FROZEN)
            ST0314 (FROZEN)
            ST0308 (FROZEN)
            ST0309 (FROZEN)
            ST0312 (FROZEN)
            ST4910 (FROZEN)
      93 - will expire within 1 week
            ST2885 expires 04/20/2004 23:31
            ST6200 expires 04/20/2004 23:37
            ST6221 expires 04/21/2004 23:53
            ST2819 expires 04/21/2004 00:01
            ST2485 expires 04/20/2004 23:44
            ST6216 expires 04/21/2004 00:01

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So there are a few lines I never want matched. Sorry for the confusion.

In reply to Re: ^4 Parse backup log by mrbbq
in thread Parse backup log by mrbbq

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