> *sigh* > awk is not "cut". What you want is > awk '{if (/[-\.0-9a-z][-\.0-9a-z]*.com/) { print $9;}}' | sort -u > > No grep needed; awk looks for what you want *first* this way. Thanks, Mark. This is cleaner code but it benchmarked slower than awk then grep. real 3m35.550s user 2m7.186s sys 0m27.793s I'll run it a few more times to make sure that it wasn't some other process slowing it down. I really need to brush up some more on my awk skills!