Guys, Can aanybody spot what I'm doing wrong in this tiny awk scripy:: #!/usr/bin/awk BEGIN { FS = ":" printf("%s\n", $1) } END I've got a bunch of grepped output that has things like foo: foo: foo: bar: bar: bar: and I want to pick out just the filename. thanks for any insights! gary -- Gary Kline kline at thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix