Nevermind, I figured it out. Used a bracket expression cat in.txt | grep [01234567898] > out.txt
Thanks for the help and the lesson Leonard >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/03 10:02AM >>> Thanks Alan, That worked great. Now let me ask you this. I have another file with blank lines - no space or tabs, just carriage returns. Can I use that same line to remove those blank lines? Leonard >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/03 09:38AM >>> cat file | grep -v ^\ > file_nospace (that's a ^ followed by a \ followed by a space) mv file_nospace file Alan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
