Hey guys, I'm a bit of a beginner (understatement!) with shell scripting and seek help! I am setting up our new squid proxy. Its working a treat and squidGuard is the icing on the cake. But, I am trying to write a shell script to search through our black list category's for squidGuard and remove the parsed value; Scenario: /some/directory/where/blacklist/is/stored contains about 40-50 folders called, adult, gambling, banking, warez etc. There is a folder for each blocking category (and in each folder is two files, urls and domains, standard stuff for web filtering!) I have a script to search through /some/directory/where/blacklist/is/stored and look at each text file trying to find someblockedsite.com and remove it. This is as far as I have got: machine:/blacklistdir# sh ./find_files "blockedsite.com" find_files is as follows: #!/bin/bash rm -f ./found_files touch ./found_files find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files i=1 while [ $i -le `wc -l ./found_files` ] ; do grep -iv $1 $2 > $2.new ####This is where I am stuck, I have put $2 but I want to be reading each line of text from found_files? rm $2 mv $2.new $2 done But I am totally stuck! My questions to this awesome list are: can someone help my with my script? And, if so, can you explain to me how you have achieved your solution? Thanks a lot for reading guys n gals its greatly appreciated. Regards, James. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------