I don't have the url for this one since that was on my other hard disk that died. There's a book called Effective Awk Programming I think 3rd edition that's available to download as zipped text on the web. I read about it in sed-users list and downloaded the file but that message may have been saved on my shellworld.net account then downloaded onto my new hard drive. -- ----- GNU Linux a real operating system with a clue ICQ: 204427655