I have a sip configuration file which looks like this: [1664] username=1664 mailbox=1664@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no [1679] username=1679 mailbox=1679@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no [1700] username=1700 mailbox=1700@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no [1701] username=1701 mailbox=1701@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no For each record I need to add another line (vmxten for each record) for example the above becomes: [1664] username=1664 mailbox=1664@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no vmexten=1664 [1679] username=1679 mailbox=1679@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no vmexten=1679 [1700] username=1700 mailbox=1700@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no vmexten=1700 [1701] username=1701 mailbox=1701@8360 host=192.168.254.3 type=friend subscribemwi=no vmexten=1701 What would you say would be the quickest way to do this? there are hundreds of records in the file, therefore modifying all of the records by hand would take a long time. Would you use Regex? Would you use sed? I'm interested to know how you would approach the problem. Thanks