>sounds more like a reason to use sed > >man sed or tell us exactly what you are trying to do Tell you the truth, I would much rather use sed, but I didn't think that was doable with it. I have a slew of txt files that contain a keyword like "service-one" on many lines. I need to change those, but only the ones that appear _after_ a known comment. Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos