On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:53:45PM -0800, Mr. X wrote: > Last effort led to this > $ sudo file mini_vusb.img | grep -Po 'startsector\s+\d+'| grep -Po '\d+' > 32 > > I like this best. Is there a way to shorten it up? Use the correct tool; "sed" sed 's/^.* startsector \(.*\),.*$/\1/' -- rgds Stephen