Hi everyone... I posted about this before, but I'm still having some problems. My script below reads (or trys to at least) read in lines of a file and then see if some part of the line matches the input from the user, $1.. Here's a sample text file that I have been using with some random images... if I search for "cookie", the image for cookie is displayed 8 times... I want it to display once.. and if I search for book.. i want picture 7 and 1 to show up.. Any help would be REALLY appreciated.. thanks. glg2296/art/images/picture1.jpg:author:cookie glg2296/art/images/picture2.jpg:author:chair glg2296/art/images/picture3.jpg:author:apple glg2296/art/images/picture4.jpg:author:grapes glg2296/art/images/picture5.jpg:author:car glg2296/art/images/picture6.jpg:author:monkey glg2296/art/images/picture7.jpg:author:book glg2296/art/images/picture1.jpg:author:book #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/html" echo counter=`wc -l " for (( i=0; i" #cat line.txt #grep "$1" database.txt >temp.txt #grep "$1" $line > results.txt grep $1 database.txt> temp.txt #cat temp.txt p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' temp.txt | sed 's#//##'` #p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' results.txt | sed 's#//##'` #cat temp.txt echo "" echo "" #rm temp.txt

Gordy: A common technique is to use the uniq command: # untested p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' temp.txt |uniq| sed 's#//##'` Regards, Nails