not quite... some domains starts with number as well i think the best way is to look for match of something dot something then add dot in front of it... On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:14:11 -0500, alexus wrote: >> >> ok, two things then >> >> 1) so for example if i put .test.com it'll ignore everything such as >> www.test.com, but would it ignore test.com as well? >> 2) assuming my first question is favorable and .test.com does both >> things ... since my list contains list of domains and IPs, can someone >> help me with regex to add "." in front of each domain and ignore lines >> that contains IPs? (to run it in a shell, using i dont know awk/sed) > > You meanthis? > Âsed s/[a-z]/.&/ <infile >outfile > > http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html > > Amos > > -- http://alexus.org/