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Hi foxidrive That worked like a dream. Thank you for your help. I am still intrigued as to what my problem was...believe me there are thousands and thousands of special characters in these files and I didn't need to escape any of the others - they echo'ed just fine. I will try not to lose any sleep ...

Hi foxidrive, thanks for your response Some more background. The text files in question are mostly made up of lines similar to the ones mentioned, but apparently random content. However, the first few lines are header information which is more or less in plain English. My task is to find the string ...

Hello All I am new on here and no expert so please be patient! I have a script to read a text file (the source) and copy all of the lines of text into another file (the destination). At the same time it will replace one particular line with different content if a match is found. The text file contai...