I have a large list of photographs taken with an incorrect date, year, set on the camera and would like to change to the correct date. I need to search and replace 2002: to 2004: in jpg and orf files. The string appears as text in both file types. I am able to change individual files with joe, mcedit and pico/nano, but this is rather slow. Ten years ago I would have written a rexx script, but age and memory rules. I know *nada* about perl and very little more about sed, but could probably throw something together in sed from book examples. But, I would feel more comfortable if someone fluent in one of these languages would assist. thanks, -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos