Actually, I do like writing code, but ended up using 'tr' to do the substitution, even though I did come up with Python code that was actually faster. --Th -----Original Message----- From: Ed Summers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:49:22AM -0400, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > cat *.mrc | tr \035 \012 | wc -l Isn't that shell code :) //Ed