On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:03:06AM +0900, pat eyler wrote: > > but if this is supposed to be part of a larger program, shell > is probably the wrong way to go about it. Why? Backticks are great. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.