Ed, Interested in a one-liner using Satimage osax? Emmanuel On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:08 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > I need some quick GREP advice. > > I'm working with a pipe delimited data file in this format: > > 114|20090826|00:00|N|1800|8005082|6719954|TVPG|L||CC|Stereo|N|Color|| > N|N|N|4:3 Fullscreen|N||||Y > > The 6th and 7th items in the each row of data (|8005082|6719954|, > from the example) are references to data in other files. > > So what I need is a grep command that will give me 2 lists, one > containing the 6th number from each row and one containing the 7th. > > The lists could be pipe, comma, tab or return delimited > > I'm fairly sure this can be done via GREP, but I don't know where to > start. > > Any suggestions?