On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:03:21AM -0500, GDHough wrote:

Many Thanks,

Learning is a wonderful thing. I had no idea I didn't need cat. I guess I'd only use it to append to a file as in cat >>, no? I considered the quotes but

Absolutely not! >, >>, and | are all shell bits and have nothing to do with cat. grep yourmomma logfile >> appendedtolog -- taa /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml