Friends: Joe Barr has written another in his great series about using the command line to accomplish tasks. Today's installment is "CLI for Newbies: Sort of Bragging" -- how to use "sort" on text files: <http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/31/1831246> Best wishes, Clint -- Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>