Brian, I will copy the MultiWatch DCL script to RIFTER::. Take a look at that. It should have everything you need! -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:39 AM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] DCL Help needed Ok, so if I were doing this in Korn or Bash I'd be done by now. :-D I've found search, i've figured out how to redirect output and input, so i've got some basics figured out. What I need to figure out now is how to walk a text file line by line and pull out specific records. Normally I would use awk for such a task. How would I go about doing this from within a DCL script? -brian