...and, just as a side point, let me say this: if anyone reading this thread is (or should be) considered a "newbie", then you would do well to learn (via which, you will learn to love) regular expressions. O'Reilly has a (big, and somewhat expensive, but definitely worthwhile) book on the subject.

regex will, more than anything else in unix/linux-dom, move you well along the path out of newbie-ness and into power-user-hood.