> >> > >> 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