So, what happened to the sort command? >sort -f 4 -d ' ' foo sort: open failed: 4: No such file or directory >sort +4 foo sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory That's going to break a lot of scripts. -- Dave ----- Nobody believed that I could build a space station here. So I built it anyway. It sank into the vortex. So I built another one. It sank into the vortex. The third station burned down, fell over then sank into the vortex. The fourth station just vanished. And the fifth station, THAT stayed!