On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:46:15 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > In awk talk what is this called > /^Address/ > /^ Hits/ In awk general: patterns. In this case, regular expressions. They can prepend a block of instructions or appear in sub() and gsub() functions as arguments. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...