Mark wrote: >I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file >with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. > >I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s) The old file(s) will be saved with the extension .bak. -- Cheers, Bernard