On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:14, vedaal at nym.hush.com said: > current windows does allow pipe, but not grep Actually since PCDOS 2.11 (~1984); although temporary files were used to implement them. IIRC, there is a grep like tool on Windows as well. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.