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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: awk question
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Bart Silverstrim wrote:

>
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote:
>
>> On 3/6/06, Bart Silverstrim <bsilverstrim@athensasd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this.
>>>
>>> If I have a list of URLs like
>>> http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif
>>>
>>> How could I use Awk or Sed to strip everything after the .com?  Or is=

>>> there a "better" way to do it? =20
>>
>>
>>     | cut -d / -f 1-3
>
>
> Oh boy was that one easy.  It was a BAD mental hiccup.
>
> I'll add a sort and uniq and it should be all ready to go. =10Thanks!
>

More than one way to skin that cat!  cut is nice'n'easy but since you=20
asked about awk and sed, these would work too:


awk -F/ 'NF > 2 {printf "%s//%s\n",  $1, $3}'

or

sed 's,^\([^/]*://[^/]*\).*,\1,'

--Alex