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Works Great! Thanks again, now I know... and knowing is half the battle.

:p Duh

Ok, yes I am not cutting and pasting, I have am on my PC now but the code is on my UNIX box. As I said before, I only write these things when I need them so I had no idea that ' is...

ZB-
Sorry I didn't mean to imply you didn't know what you're talking about, but I did try it and it is not working as expected. If I do an echo $j it will spit out
echo "$i" | sed "s/$1/$2/"

Is...

zazzybob:
That will set j to be `echo "$i" | sed "s/$1/$2/"` not actually execute the command.
When I run my script it wants to rename this_file001.txt to echo "$i" | sed "s/$1/$2/"

I'm a tyro when it comes to cshells - all I'm getting is the output "Variable Syntax" to the command line. Is there a way to get more info from csh?

Still giving me a "Variable Syntax" Error.

I understand how to use a variable in a sed command, but for the life of me I can't get the output into a variable.
I'm making a general function to replace part of a filename with a different...