On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:47 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I am used to using the replace command to quickly replace strings in > file, but it's not available on some of my fresh CentOS 5.4 servers. If you just want to do what you say here, sed will work fine. I remember that I had, found, or quite possibly wrote a "replace" command for DOS that I used to find quite handy but sed comes with Linux so that's all that is required. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com