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This did it:

grep "services/.*html$" file.txt

The . is for any character and so the * means 0-many occurances of any character. There should be no \ infront of the . since that causes it to be...

Didn't work as is, but gives me some ideas to play around with.

I'm trying to find files which have urls such as "services/amf/fri/home.html" and "services/amj/fri/air.html" - so the pattern I want to match with grep, logically, is one that has

1. "services/"...

Thanks for your input.

Corona688, you said "My wild guess would be that XML Spy is saving them in something crazy like 16-bit Unicode" and I think that's it. (Don't know how to test it though?
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I'm trying to use grep on XML files. The same grep expressions work on plaint text files but not on XML files (which of course are plain text files). Actually, these expressions work on XML files...

...so I read "The Pragmatic Programmer" and they stressed the value of learning shell scripting!

I'm in a UNIX environment but have a Windows XP workstation.

I'm using Telnet to issue UNIX...