No problem. It is all courtesy of my friend 'grep', which has following options: -H print filename -R search recursively -i case-insensitive matching So, for example, one can do something like this using 'egrep', a variant of grep that supports regular expressions: egrep -HRi ".*bind.*db.*" . It has been very fruitful for me and probably can be for you as well. :) -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 1170 Peachtree Street 12th Floor, Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/