<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6396.0"> <TITLE>Nagios plugins , IFS</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Folks Note sure if this is possible or not. All Nagios plugins return there text with spaces in between the text fields. Which is great to be able to read. However my Automated logging system (Service Centre , via PEM) Require the test to be in one line e.g have a underscore character in it Is there are easy way to change the plugins to support different Internal Field Separators IFS The way I have round it is to have a shell script do something like #!/bin/ksh # Script to just get the ssh bits we need and use IFS _ for Service Center. SSH=`/local/nagios/libexec/check_ssh $1` STATUS=$? echo "$SSH " | awk '{print $2"_"$3}' exit $STATUS While the above works fine. It does mean making shell scripts for each check plugin that I need to use. Is there a better way of doing this ? Thanks Matt Matthew Garrett Unix System Support Shell Information Technology International Limited Seafield House, North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen AB15 6GZ, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1224 81 8373 Other Tel: Internal 630 8373 Email: Internet: <A HREF="http://www.shell.com">http://www.shell.com</A> </BODY> </HTML>