>> *sigh*
>> awk is not "cut". What you want is
>> awk '{if (/[-\.0-9a-z][-\.0-9a-z]*.com/) { print $9;}}' | sort -u
I ended up using this construct in my code; this one fetches out
servers that are having issues checking in with puppet:
awk '{if (/Could not find default node or by name with/) { print
substr($15, 2, length($15)-2);}}' ${TMPDIR}/* | sort -u
Thanks again, your knowledge and helpfulness is much appreciated.