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. -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com