graduating from xanga? seems like you did that a long time ago. :)

Yeah, yeah, you're right. See how much I've actually been studying? :-p The overall point is that for me, as a person who is unfamiliar with UNIX commands, it would take me longer to go find my textbook, figure out which command to use, look up the proper options, and construct the entire command than it would to simply cut-and-paste each individual entry into a new file.