Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>/dev.*5$ > > Thanks, I don't know what I was thinking. Been looking at this script > too long and I wanna go home:) I got it anyway with grep '^/dev.*1$' Wouldn't that match something like /dev/sda11 ? I tried a few variations though didn't figure out the exact syntax(so used to perl regex) to match exactly 1 number at the end of the line. nate