On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 at 15:00, Guy Shaw wrote: > But, I am just guessing. I see no reason why the > > sed argv1 | sed argv2 | sed argv3 > > pipeline would not work, but on Solaris, > that just hangs. Do you have a real example where this hangs? Also, which version of sed are you using? C. -- BOFH excuse #439: Hot Java has gone cold