>>Depends on how you define "one-liner." Something like this might work: >> >>{ if index($0, PATTERN) != 0 {FOUND = 1;}; if (FOUND != 0) >>{subst(REPLACE_THIS, WITH_THIS, $0); } >> >>You'd want to reverse the order of the two statements if the >>replacement is only to occur after the pattern is found. > > Cool, I'll give it a whirl tomorrow! I do want to replace all > occurrences only after the keyword When you say "after", do you mean blah, blah blah, blah yadda, yadda, keyword, to-be-replaced or do you mean blah, blah blah, blah yadda, yadda, keyword, to-be-replaced also-to-be-replaced? mark "awk 'r' us"