this worked perfect!! thanx i didn't know about tr now i can prepare songs on ubuntu ... great! will make an alias for this command On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:27:50PM +0100, Andy wrote: > > If your file ONLY contains Mac Line Endings try the following > > tr '\r' '\n' < in_file.txt > out_file.txt > -- '2+ http://micro.ispretty.com