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Hi Jonny, > it works almost perfect but when i run the command in my script it doesn't > work > as i would like it to. > I use this lines > ${SED} -e s/SendThisTo:// ${FAXFILE} > ${TEMPFILE1} > ${SED} -e s/:SLUT// ${TEMPFILE1} > ${TEMPFILE2} > ${SED} -e s/${SENDADDR}// ${TEMPFILE2} > ${FAXFILE2} > > But the last line where i use an variable as criteria for the search won't > work. To ALLOW the Unix shell to interpret the dollar sign (replacing it with an environment variable), put the script in double quotes: sed "s/_terminal-type_/$TERM/g" input.file >output.file Taken from the fantastic sef faq under : http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/sed/ Best Regards, Carsten Breuer