On 8/20/05, Brendan Lally < brenlally at gmail.com > wrote: > cvs2cl.pl --hide-filenames --no-indent -f lib/newstmp --no-times -l > "-d>$(ls -l lib/news | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"; grep -v ^[0123456789] > lib/newstmp | grep [:alpha:] > lib/news; rm lib/newstmp additionally, if a blank line between each entry is preffered, then use uniq instead of grep [:alpha:] (personally I think that looks nicer).