I have an interesting question. I am working on a system that I need to run two commands in the shell, but when I use passthru() on the first command then run the second command to get the results from the first command, it doesn't work. Is there any way I can run 2 shell commands in the same execution space so that I can get the results from the first becaus eI think it is running them separately so when I try to pull the results, it has no results to pull. Does this make sense? any suggestions? Thanks, Matt Babineau MCWD / CCFD ----------------------------------------- e: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 603.943.4237 w: <http://www.criticalcode.com/> http://www.criticalcode.com PO BOX 601 Manchester, NH 03105