On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me. > > In its simplest form... > > for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do > echo "$old" > dirname "$old" > new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')" > done Should be new=$(echo "$old" | sed 's/\*/\-/') -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina