In article <809 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes: |In article <911 at riddle.UUCP> domo at riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes: | ... <awk and sed scripts deleted> ... This shell script does the job: while read c1 c2 c3 c4 do echo $c1 $c3 done As it only uses built-ins, it will scream along fine. enjoy -len