Thanks for contributing. I mean that earnestly.

Please forgive my one small Unix gripe, however. There is no need to pipe grep output to awk. awk will do it all.

me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ cat data.txt
bob 21 xyz
sam 8 uuu
bob 90 fff
sue 12 qaz
bob 99 har
me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ grep bob data.txt | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'
21
me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ awk '/bob/ {print $2; exit}' data.txt
21

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I was referring to this line of yours:

$lastValidBackupTime=`/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist -cli
+ent $client 2>&1 | grep $client | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'`;

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In reply to Re: Failboat -- An Emotionally Disturbed Tool For Checking NetBackup Client Coverage by jffry
in thread Failboat -- An Emotionally Disturbed Tool For Checking NetBackup Client Coverage by bpoag

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