Greet the sun all: Within Unix, what does one use to quickly scan text files for a particular pattern? I need to scan a large amount of *.HTML files for a pattern. I though about Awk, is there a good Awk site with examples somebody could recommend. I asked Google but there is more garbarge that useful links. I know somebody will recommend Perl but I haven't used Perl in five years and I am just looking for something along the lines of "text-finder-pgm -R (for recursion) 'cgi-bin' *.html" Thank you, -- Perry Hoekstra E-Commerce Architect Talent Software Services perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com t_perlExists = false;