. Thanks to all. I used dos2unix and that worked fine, but I was also glad to learn about the 'cat -vet' option and the idea of using sed. ------------------ On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, James Mcphee wrote > So you have a carriage {CR}{LF} instead of just {LF}. That's the windows return characters instead of just the unix one. (Mac uses just the {CR}). > > You can crush that in a couple ways. The dos2unix utility works fine. You could also use sed or vi to snip it. It shows up as a ^M if you cat -vet or do a :set list in vi. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss