versatileint

what you are looking for is not clear. can you please post a sample output of what you require

Mix sknake and hilliard solution echo `date +%m'/'%d'/'%Y` >> file

sed 's_in_out:'$today':'$name'_'

sed 's_(see: Codification)_[[Codification]]_'

There is the -f option with top which will help you re-direct the output to a file and then you can apply sed on the output file.

If you give such a cmd on HP-UX it will say : tar: usage tar [-]{txruc}[eONvVwAfblhm{op}][0-7[lmh]] [tapefile] [blocksize] [[-C directory] file] ... and on AIX it will say: tar: /usr/local/bin : Cannot write to a directory. Fest3er has given good examples of using tar. tar cvf <[I]archive_name[/I]> <[I]file_or_directory_to be archived[/I]> …