On 11/16 01:50 , Mike Miller wrote: > So the finding here that might be useful in many situations is that when > searching for a regexp in a big file, you might do much better to filter > lines of the big file with a simpler, more inclusive grep, then do the > regexp search on the stdout from the simple grep. Nifty. Thanks for the tips and for letting us know the results of your tests! -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com