To me, it just looks like a style difference. With grep, awk, sed, wc,.... There are at least 10 million ways to skin a cat. Brock On 8/19/05, Wakefield, Thad M. <twakefield at stcloudstate.edu> wrote: > > >> > > >> here's Mike Miller's one-liner: > > >> [chrome at mailhost:~]$egrep '^From ' ~/Mail/procmail.log | gawk > '{print $4" "$5", "$7}' | uniq -c > > In my continuing endeavor to understand pipes, redirects and xargs, is > there a > reason why you used egrep instead of: gawk '/^From /{print $4,$5", "$7}' > ~/Mail/procmail.log ...? > > Thad > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >