Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com> writes: > How can I grep for \tfoobar\t? grep ' foobar ' ^ ^ | | real tabs You need to enter literal tabs here. Hope this helps, --kevin -- "Then most certainly," I said, "such men would hold that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of artificial things." -- Socrates, in Plato's _Republic_