Why would I have a file, uniq the output, have the output redirected to a= =20 file, and the file be blank when I tried to look at it? --=20 :-)~Mike~(-: [bmike1@localhost training]$ uniq test-sor abc 1234 mary 75 About town +abc 9 92 38 _ABC abc +777 ZZ #ZZ zz my files ?453 ?mary abc 96 Mary ^Mary [bmike1@localhost training]$ uniq test-sor >test-sor [bmike1@localhost training]$ more test-sor [bmike1@localhost training]$