Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> writes: > cat <filename> | awk '$0 ~ /^.*\t.*\t111.*/' Gack! That's no better than the grep version! awk -F'\t' '($3 == 111)' < 1.txt -- Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/