On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:33:41PM -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: : : For some reason this is not working, If I run it alone, like so: : tr "\r" "\n" < /Applications/EIMS/Filters/STF.log | grep 89 : I get hits, if I run it as a shell script : stfgrep 89 I get nothing. : : #!/bin/bash : : if [ "$1" = "" ]; then : echo "Enter in something to search on" : exit 0 : fi : : tr "\r" "\n" < /Applications/EIMS/Filters/STF.log | grep "$1" I saw some odd whitespace characters in your shell script. What editor are you using to write it? Whatever app it is, be sure to save as a plain text file. That might be the problem. Otherwise, your script is perfectly fine. -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/