Sean Carolan wrote: > The awk output that was piped into to the sed command looks like this: > > ajpv12://host1.domain.company.com:8008/root > ajpv12://host2.domain.company.com:8008/root > ajpv12://host3.domain.company.com:8008/root > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > for the sample data you gave the following worked for me: gawk -F/ '/:8008\/root/ {split($3,hostname,".") ; print hostname[1]}' urls -- Denis Becker Information Technology - Engineering MN State Univ., Mankato Mankato, MN ph: 507-389-5617 fx: 507-389-5002