Something like... sed 's/[0-9A-Z\(\)\:]//g' would strip out digits, upper case characters and (, ) and :. sed 's/[0-9A-Z\(\)\:]//g;s/^[ \t]*//g' Will do the same and remove leading whitespace too. This all assumes your usernames are all lowercase with no digits. Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Wood" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Red Hat List" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: need a sed guru to help me strip out words > # fuser -u SO* > SODEI: 8952(whse) 23496(lhoover) 28450(recept) 28845(dschuetterle) > 30835(awalter) > SOLSI: 8952(whse) 23496(lhoover) 28450(recept) 28845(dschuetterle) > 30835(awalter) 20242(ewood) > > I need a sed formula to just list out the user names > > # fuser -u SO* | sed 'something' | uniq > whse > lhoover > recept > dschuetterle > awalter > ewood > > Any help is appreciated! > -eric wood > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
