Thanks Carey. > sed -e 's/^V^I//g' filename > newfile > > where ^V^I is Control-V, Control-I (or Control-V, Tab).
This didn't work, I suspect because of the terminal I was at at the time (ssh under Putty) > > Alernatively, the tr command is closer to what you want: > > tr -d '\t' < filename > newfile But tr did, thanks again! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
