That's exactly what the awk command I posted (using eval), and the xargs commands posted by others, do; without the extra steps. On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Your safest way is going to be with a little shell script. If you have > the vis command it's probably better than cat -v. I don't know if these > files are parts of a binary or text file. The general script would look > something like this. The redirection I do is for a good reason. cat -v a1 > a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 >>afile. The first line of the script would be > #!/bin/sh. That longer line I wrote earlier would be duplicated as many > times as necessary and you'd change the numbers each line down the script. > so that the last line in the script would be cat a91 a92 a93 a94 a95 a96 > a97 a98 a99 >>afile. If you use a command like .,.s/a[1-9]/a1[1-9]/gp > <cr> That should change line 3 in the script from cat a1 a2 a3 a4 to cat > a11 a12 a13 a14 etc. > > Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >