I've got an SNMP call which echo's the status of a tape drive, this is a string of text which will vary a great deal (e.g one time it might read "no errors" and another time it might read "tape drive x has a fault due to y we recommend you z").

I usually just do awk '{print $4}' for my snmp calls but seeing as the length is unknown, whats the best way to do this? Does awk have a 'print everything after $4' command or something? I also know the text will only appear after a set number of characters, would it be possible to print everything after 64 characters for example? I guess sed or something could (possibly) be capable of doing this.

Example below:

I just want whatever comes after STRING:

Quick 'N' Dirty Way
Check the man page for cut (man cut) for additional information.

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That should get me going, thanks a bunch Seems to work a treat.

If you're really looking for a sed answer to your problem, then this should work:Output should look like this;