RE: grep in DOS... No. My PC is dual-boot, so if I have texty data and/or perl problems to solve, I boot linux. In Windows, I just run the GUI tools and live with whatever that provides. I know folks that use MKSTools or something like that. You get all the unix shell commands including grep. You can get perl for Windows also. To me, Windows is unstable enough as is, so I add as little as possible to it and use linux when I want that environment. Thx, Chris