\_ LOL! Dude, that "head/tail" thing just HAS to \_ go into SOME kind of "Hall of Fame." Um, the "Hall of Shame"...notice the trailing filenames are all foo.02? Sheesh. There's a reasons I don't copy and paste code usually, and that's it. :-) \_ > Ooo...that's more graceful than what I sed about using head + tail... \_ > \_ > head -100 infil > foo.01 \_ > head -200 infil | tail -100 > foo.02 \_ > head -300 infil | tail -100 > foo.02 \_ > head -400 infil | tail -100 > foo.02 \_ > .... I like my perl sol'n better still, tho. David