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Asked: 2026-06-05T10:43:52+00:00

My text file has a few lines like this… some data here Waiting on

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My text file has a few lines like this…

some data here Waiting on job_bba6b2a1589b4535a804e7877dc1fe11 ... (409s) Current status: DONE 
some data there Waiting on job_xyz ... (240s) Current status: DONE

I need to find the job id. In the example mentioned above…

bba6b2a1589b4535a804e7877dc1fe11
xyz

I can use grep, but how to select only the ID?

cat file.log | grep ‘Waiting on job_’

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  1. Editorial Team

    if this is what you need?

    kent$  echo "some data here Waiting on job_bba6b2a1589b4535a804e7877dc1fe11 ... (409s)"|grep -oP "(?<=Waiting on job_)[^ ]*" 
bba6b2a1589b4535a804e7877dc1fe11
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