You can do this grep 10.0.0.7. filename The last period may work as a space. Or do this grep "10.0.0.7 " filename That might work as well John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> ann kok <annkok2001@xxxxxxxxx> 1/18/2008 3:20 PM >>> Hi all how can use grep or use other command to get exactly pattern eg: 10.0.0.7 only? eg: grep 10.0.0.7 file. I want to get 10.0.0.7 only not 10.0.0.71 10.0.0.72 10.0.0.7 thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list