>More to the point, if you want to have blah read foo and write its >output to a new copy of foo, do something like this: > ( rm foo; blah > foo ) < foo Will this work if "foo" is an NFS file? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang at wsrcc.com (or) uunet!wsrcc!wolfgang Snail Mail Address: Box 6524, Alexandria, VA 22306-0524