Listmates, Every time I run into sed, it's a fight. I'm trying to locate a " and then strip the quote and everything that follows from each line in a file called "myfile". I am obviously horribly confused with the ranges escaped parentheses and \1 remembered patterns. Surely sed can do this, but the trees are obscuring the forest. The lines I have in myfile are all like: /home/icons-2/filename.gif">capital seal 1</A> The problem I am having is that the " is in the middle of a 'word' so something like cat ~/tmp/myfile | sed 's/"\([0-9A-Za-z]*\)*/\1/' doesn't work. Something as simple as cat ~/tmp/myfile | sed 's/"//' does find the " and delete it, but how do I get rid of the rest of the line? Help! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org