Hello Managers Thanks for all the help. By playing with the following terrific clues, I managed my problem. Denes, Daniel cat /etc/hosts | nawk '{for (i = 2; i<= NF; i++) print $i;}' | grep 'ss[0-9]*$' Hutin Bertrand bash-2.05# awk '/ts/{print $2}' /etc/hosts |uniq bash-2.05# awk '/ss/{print $2}'/etc/hosts |uniq Matthew Stier awk '$0 !~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/ { next; } $2 ~ /[ts]s[0-9]+$/ { print $2 }' /etc/hosts | uniq Sandwich Maker #!/usr/bin/ksh -p # quick kornshell hack to extract hostnames ending in ts or ss # optionally followed by digits while read IP HOST JUNK do case $HOST in *[ts]s*([0-9])) print $HOST;; esac done < /etc/hosts | sort -u Crist Clark $ awk '$2 ~ /[st]s/ {printf "%s\t%s\n" $1 $2}' /etc/hosts | uniq Brad_Morrison nawk '/[st]s[0-9]/ {for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) if ($i ~ /[st]s[0-9]$/) printf("%s\t%s\n",$1,$i)}' > somefile Regards Rob --------------------------------- Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger with Voice _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 20 15:04:44 2006
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