note zengargoyle <p>i couldn't make your <tt><pre><(cat file ...)</pre></tt> example to work, but i've seen the nice <tt>bash</tt> funcionality in the man pages...</p> <p>sadly i can rarely use it. most of my co-workers are stuck in <tt>csh</tt> hell not even willing to go to <tt>tcsh</tt> for tab-completion and arrow-history, much less <tt>bash</tt> despite my constant proselytization. we still have old Solaris boxes without <tt>bash</tt> that will never have <tt>bash</tt> (but have Perl 5.003 or so). so it's <tt>sh</tt>/<tt>csh</tt> compatible only for me...<i>sigh</i></p> <p>that and the whole Linux vs Solaris with all of the different versions of commands that do slightly different things keeps me going to Perl for anything complex.</p> <p>when all our boxes are Solaris 9 with <tt>bash</tt> i promise to study it more.</p> 296742 296904