<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2008 12:20 PM, ann kok <<a href="mailto:annkok2001@yahoo.com">annkok2001@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all how can use grep or use other command to get exactly pattern eg: <a href="http://10.0.0.7" target="_blank">10.0.0.7</a> only? eg: grep <a href="http://10.0.0.7" target="_blank">10.0.0.7</a> file. I want to get <a href="http://10.0.0.7" target="_blank">10.0.0.7</a> only not <a href="http://10.0.0.71" target="_blank">10.0.0.71</a> <a href="http://10.0.0.72" target="_blank">10.0.0.72</a> <a href="http://10.0.0.7" target="_blank"> 10.0.0.7</a> thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs" target="_blank"> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a></blockquote><div> If there is something else in the line in addition to <a href="http://10.0.0.7">10.0.0.7</a> example: <a href="http://10.0.0.7">10.0.0.7 </a> word1 word2 number1... then use > grep -w <a href="http://10.0.0.7">10.0.0.7</a> myfile | awk '{print $1}' if <a href="http://10.0.0.7">10.0.0.7</a> is the second field then use '{print $2}' and so on. ~af </div></div>