-------- Jason Clifford writes: >> Will someone prompt my failing memory please? > >awk? >sed? >egrep? >perl? Nice try, but I suspect cut is the command he was looking for: cut -d/ -f2 file.txt Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug