Ben Hartshorne wrote: > uid=`echo $i | sed -e "s/[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\).*/\1/"` > Someone make me feel embarassed by posting a much more beautiful script. > At the very least, replace those sed lines with awk or something. It > should be much easier to say "grab the first and third field split by > :'s" than that ugly regexps above. cut -d : -f 1,3 -- see shy jo