Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > I would like to find all the hard disks on a machine > so I'm querying /etc/fstab. I can handle excluding > /proc etc with a series of "grep -v foo" in the line > (see commented grep line in function below, which works > fine). Try this: awk '{ print $4 }' /proc/partitions | grep -e '^[h,s]d.$'