> >> No way, this is shell scripting, it can't be that easy. >> >> Seriously? > > I think I just heard a light bulb come on... > And then it immediately went out again. set pathName to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:edstockly:Desktop:Sep-14 Mon Daily TV Grid:FriForMonSurfProofLogs-09-14-09:0914_MON.TXT" set pathName to quoted form of POSIX path of pathName do shell script "tr '\\r' '\\n' " & pathName & " | grep " & quoted form of "TRAV" Fail. Fails with this error message. usage: tr [-Ccsu] string1 string2 tr [-Ccu] -d string1 tr [-Ccu] -s string1 tr [-Ccu] -ds string1 string2 es