> [...] To merge the lines from four > different files use > lam file1 -s "\ > " file2 file3 file4
> which cannot be right, [...]. More likely a string containing just > a newline is what is wanted, in which case the '\' MUST be omitted. That depends on the shell in use. In two quick tests I just did, csh on 1.4T and 5.2 does indeed use quoted-backslashed-newline, as in the example you quote, to get a newline into the command line. (Okay, my 1.4T and 5.2 derivatives, but I havean't hacked on csh on either of them, except for whitespace cleanup and, for the 1.4T version, for switching to 64-bit time_t.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B