Hi Keith

Thanks it worked like a charm.  I should have been able to find this.  I
ended up in a mind set-up, I didn't seem to be able to get out of.

I realize it is not the best way.  It just sort of evolved. You should
have seen what it orginal looked like. :) 

david

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Keith Winston wrote:

> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0400, dbrett wrote:
> > 
> > sort -n +2 list.txt | awk '{print $2}' | grep - list2.txt
> > 
> > list.txt                    list2.txt
> > server1             10.1.1.1        server1         10.1.1.1
> > server2             10.1.1.2        server2         10.1.1.2
> > server3             10.1.1.3        server3         10.1.1.3
> > ...                         server4         10.1.1.4
> >                             ...
> > What I was hoping was the last grep would take the ip addresses from the
> > first file search for this IP address in the second file.
> 
> This is far from optimal, but I think you want the grep -f option.
> 
> sort -n +2 list.txt | awk '{print $2}' > list.sorted
> grep -f list.sorted list2.txt
> 
> Best Regards,
> Keith 
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