Hi! Here is a perl script that I stole from Henry Churchyard and a shell script that I wrote to rewrite every file in a directory and replace a specified string, etc. I am in the process of moving coldfusion apps to linux, and am finding this invaluable. (I will post the shell script again when I get it to run recursively through the directory tree. Just thought someone out there might find it useful. :-) -- Shannon Peevey UNT-Central Web Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] 940-369-7786 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly