I have a text file which runs like as below- -f /data/feed/cj/2007-03-09/10273657-Forzieri_com_Europe.txt -p CJFeedProcessor -i generic -h 0 -f /data/feed/cj/2007-03-09/10362510-SOFT_SURROUNDINGS.txt -p CJFeedProcessor -i generic -h 855 -f /data/feed/cj/2007-03-09/10273670-Flowers_Fast.txt -p CJFeedProcessor -i generic -h 298 -f /data/feed/cj/2007-03-09/10273680-1_Stop_Florists.txt -p CJFeedProcessor -i generic -h 335 -f /data/feed/cj/2007-03-09/10364982-Wissota_Trader.txt -p CJFeedProcessor -i generic -h 708 I would like to extract only the name(after the date i.e "10273657-Forzieri_com_Europe.txt" and the SKU count at the end.I want to do this with AWK. SO basically,I want to extract only 2 parts of a text file.Could any one of you help me out?Thanks

I'm too lazy to write an awk statement so I did what you wanted with a shell script. I put your data into a file called junk.data #!/bin/ksh parseIt() { echo "${2##*/}\t$8" } exec 3<junk.data while read -r -u3 line do parseIt $line done Jerry

here's the awk script [code] awk '{ n = split($2, array , "/");print array[n] " " $NF }' "file" [/code]