Hello list, I'm working at a used bookstore, running a fairly archaic cataloguing program which runs on an IBM AIX server (Windows machines telnet in to catalogue, run point of sale, etc.) All databases are exported in tab-delimited text format, with whatever fields you have specified to export -- all standard issue stuff. We're beginning to upload our inventory to websites, and we need to do a little tweaking to the exported database file before we upload -- basically, we need to replace the terse condition descriptions we have on the database (limited to 8 characters!) with rather more descriptive versions for online browsers.. So I need to write a script which does a search and replace (ex. search for 'NEW', replace with 'In new condition, with no blemishes," etc..) Unfortunately I'm pretty much a newbie when it comes to scripting - I've done some C, some (very minor) Bash scripting, but no Korn shell scripting at all. Could anyone offer any help in how to solve this problem? If someone could just point out a couple of commands (I'm looking into sed and awk, but not sure if this is the best place to start), I'll happily read the man pages -- I'd just like to get some tips on where to look first! thanks in advance, Nick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list