On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2003-09-18 05:48:55 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > (the awk solution is at best inefficient). > > awk is involved anyways. I saw (but for a similar script, I combined the head and awk commands as a single sed operation). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net