On 2010年09月29日, Hugo L?veill? <hugol at fastmail.net> wrote: > Sorry, I am not a linux guy. Did not know it was a text file And the "file" command (the usual way to figure that out) doesn't appear to be helpful: $ file /etc/passwd /etc/passwd: ASCII text [That's helpful] $ file /proc/stat /proc/stat: empty [That's not] However, as usual, Google comes to rescue. The first hit for "/proc/stat" has a detailed description: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My mind is a potato at field ... gmail.com