On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:01:46PM +0100, mdeboer@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > complex replacements (I suppose the ${//) only does literal string > replacement?) The first expression can use any of bash's pattern-matching wildcard characters: *?[] -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827