Simon Perreault wrote : > Yes, I too am against screen-scraping. However, UNIX-like interoperability is > not screen scraping. Is this screen-scraping? > > rpm -qa | grep ^perl- | xargs rpm -ql | xargs grep -l ^#!/usr/bin/perl | xargs > perl -c Well, the first part is overly complicated for nothing. Like doing "cat file | grep foo" instead of "grep foo file" ;-) What you wanted was : rpm -qla 'perl-*' Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 Load : 1.40 1.21 1.04