is there a sed expression that can parse just 'chg' from the following: core1.chg-confg and do it in one sed execution? the best i can do is: echo core1.chg-confg | sed -e 's/.*\.//g' | sed -e 's/-.*//g' is there shorter way? thanks -cjm - To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@luci.org with "unsubscribe luci-discuss" in the body.