I vote for Gilbert's version of this script!! His version is much, much faster in execution as everything is done in memory. Now it is time for me to study up on the use of awk and associative arrays. Thanks Gilbert! Greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20080501/fdc3b3ac/attachment-0004.html>