On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Brian<emaillists at beckerspace.com> wrote: >> Can I use this >> >> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt >> > > Why don't you just try it and see if it works? There _is_ that, but it won't.... :-) mhr