Hi, i'm trying to write a simple script that will do several things: 1) merge 3 files in a predefined order 2) replace a few words in one of the files to be merged, the values with which the words will be replaced must be given(/requested). 3) output the file to a specified filename. having little knowledge of shell scripting i'm only able to do the first. can someone help me out with the this? Thanks in advance, William