On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John BORIS wrote: > 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 i would use the "-w" option to force the string to be a separate word. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================