Hi Ludo! On a side note, the following shell incantations > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > ludo@berlin ~$ grep -E '/gzip/[[:alnum:]]{32}-(hwloc-2|openmpi-4)\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ ' < /tmp/sample3.log | cut -f1 -d- | sort -u | wc -l > 22 > ludo@berlin ~$ grep -E '/gzip/[[:alnum:]]{32}-(hwloc-2|openmpi-4)\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ ' < /tmp/sample3.log | cut -f1 -d- | cut -f 1-3 -d. | sort -u | wc -l > 8 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- are perfect examples for why it's high time we moved to a better shell language :D https://ambrevar.xyz/lisp-repl-shell/index.html Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/