Mário Gamito wrote: > Thank you so much for your answer. > > I've used your code in a script and run: > # cat passwords.sql | your_script > > but all i get is a file named typescrypt with this content: > Script started on Sun Dec 24 23:24:28 2006 > > What am i doing wrong ? Did you call my script "script" by any chance? If you run: cat passwords.sql | script It will run /usr/bin/script (which logs a terminal session to a file typically named "typescript"). If the script is in the current directory, you would need to use e.g.: cat passwords.sql | ./script or: ./script < passwords.sql Also, it needs the execute bit set ("chmod +x") to be run directly; you can also call sed explicitly e.g.: sed -f script < passwords.sql -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html