hey guys, dont worry about the preivous email, just leave the syntax like we originally planned: searcher.sh onelettersequence.txt onelettersequence I thought it would be easier to sort through the text files but I guess we could just do that afterwards. so yeah hope the protein things are going well. shankar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail