>> The URL that is output by the script looks something like this: >> >> ajpv12://hostname.network.company.com:8008/root >> >> Is there a way to alter the output so it only shows "hostname" by >> itself? Do I need to pipe this through awk again to clean it up? > > awk '/:8008\/root/ {printf $3 "\t"}' $x | sed 's/.*\/\(.*\):.*/\1/' That worked well. If I have three matches from the awk command, how would you alter this so sed will output all three hostnames?