how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files using sed? Is it sed '8,10d'< file> newfile or is there a better way? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php