I've got a file. The file has one line of interest. Alpha characters represent fixed strings, numbers represent variable strings. ab1cfd2egb3chd4eib5cjd6ek I'm pretty sure I can write myself a regular expression that will correspond to the numbered strings. What I need is a tool that will pass the matched string along to standard out. Suggestions? To put it in slightly less obscure terms - the line represents a string of html code. The numbers represent hypertext links and their matching text. I want to watch for a specific text string, and pass the corresponding link to wget. I think I've got all the pieces figured out _except_ passing the link to wget. -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org