On 07/15 09:15 , Eric Crist wrote: > I agree with this, though the cat part isn't needed: > > sed "s/MD5SUM_GOES_HERE/`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`/g" template.html > output.html Thank you for the 'aha!' moment this gave me. One of those things I should know, but never learned for whatever reason. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com