Well, my unabridged word list reveals "aggry", "ahungry", "anhungry" and "unangry" but you can decide how many of those qualify as "words". the command you want is: % grep -i 'gry$' wordfile to be safest. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs at world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD