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Using the above suggestion gives me an error.

grep: egrep -l "$ser" *.rpt: cannot open [No such file or directory]

anymore ideas.

Thanks Perderabo

I short handed the last bit of code because :

ser="S/N: 10001"
oper="Operation: 300"

I did this because there are chances of having 300 and 10001 in the collected data. using this and the...

I am using egrep right now:

ser="10001"
oper="300"

egrep -l "$ser" *.rpt|egrep -l "$oper" *.rpt

this works but it also shows files that have an operation other then 300

I am using a DEC ALPHA running Digital UNIX (formly DEC OSF/1) and ksh. I have a directory with hundreds of files that only share the extension .rpt. I would like to search that directory based on...