On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:23, pll at lanminds.com wrote: > In a message dated: 30 Jan 2003 11:05:41 EST > Kevin D. Clark said: > > grep -v '^[:space:]*$' Your missing the outermost brackets! grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$' That bit me the other day. -- Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com>