Monday, March 3, 2003 @ 2:33:16 AM Central Standard Time JJT> One possible solution (untested): JJT> perl -le 'print"tcp,0.0.0.0/0,$_,192.168.1.100,$_"for28800..29100"'>>config Thank You for the tip. I have not tested it yet, but I will check it. This afternoon & evening (prior to seeing this response, thanks again by the way) I gave myself a crash course in bash script writing. After several hours I successfully made a script that was able to do everything I wanted, except I cannot for the life of me figure out how to send the data going to the screen, to a file. Sounds stupid, but I tried using >> everywhich way possible. I read until my eyes bled & strings of code started coming out of my arse. I would like the output of this script to be written to a file named "config1". Here is the code in question: #!/bin/bash BEGINPORT=28800 ENDPORT=29100 while [ "$BEGINPORT" -lt $(($ENDPORT+1)) ] do echo "tcp,0.0.0.0/0,$BEGINPORT,192.168.1.100,$BEGINPORT,on" BEGINPORT=$(($BEGINPORT+1)) done -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- It works great. I don't know where or how to properly use ">> config1" or if I need to add something else to save it to a file. I'm really close on this one, and would really appreciate anyones advice. JJT> I think you have enough slack already, "Bob". HAIL ERIS! Yes, I am a Slackware fan. I love it. Thank You All & Adios, Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars West Longitude 90' 15' 43" mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list