Hi eskimo and thank you for your reply. Learning swift is on my bucket list for ages… Just wanted an easy solution to be able to mount network shares to mount points of my choice on Mac OSX in my firm and the only way that seemed to work for me was a shell script so far.

Hi OOPer, thanks for your reply. You are right in both your answers: I read a lot about awk on the web and my mistake was putting = where ~ would have been right.