Still a newbie
 

Hi
If you trace the forums back you can probably see where im going......

Anyway
Im very very new to this so bear with me...
Im trying to edit a text file extracting only certain information from it...
ie..

FILE -- arp.table

? (10.10.10.10) at 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA [ether] on eth0
? (10.10.10.11) at 00:00:00:BB:BB:BB [ether] on eth0

RESULT WANTED

10.10.10.10 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA
10.10.10.11 00:00:00:BB:BB:BB
and so on

can anyone help
Many thanks
And for people like me this forum is a god send

What method are you using to exit the text file? If you only need to parse the data and retrieve the result you wish, perl is a good choice. A regex can do that for you.. bash can do it, too (possibly using awk/sed -- I don't know these very well) but not as easily as perl. I guess the question is, what language are you wanting to use?

Basically im open to offers as im only just starting in this field. You said that Perl would be the easier choice so

How could i get perl to output only the results wanted as above.

is this sufficient?
cut -d' ' -f2,4 arp.table | tr -d '()'

Nice zeropash. I tend to think 'perl' first in many situations, and usually there are ways to do it already. That's nice. (=

I am a lazy guy ;)

Thanks a lot, thats worked great.