> Ok, finally had a second to put my brain to this. This idiom works great > except under one condition (and the example I gave had that one I think I'll just stick a shell alias named "p" that wraps the ps, grep, and grep -v. Typing "p something" I think just saves on typing :) -- Daniel R. <danielr at neophi.com> [http://www.neophi.com/]