>The regex you want is "^[[:space:]]*word" Wow, thanks everyone for the help! How does one modify this to also knock out lines that *must* have whitespace followed by a number [0-9]? I can do it using "^[[:space:]]*[0-9]" but it also takes out lines w/o whitespace that begin with numbers? I have to buy a book on RegEx's and Sed :) Thanks all! jlc