Thanks Chris, Eric, quoting the variable worked. Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net> writes:
>It is an error on your part for not quoting properly. But this >is not cygwin-specific, so I would advise getting a good >tutorial on shell programming and reading it (the web has >plenty of resources, google is your friend). I use Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. In the following link, there is a discussion of the $IFS internal field separator variable specific to echo and linefeeds. In general, I suppose that any command could replace echo and any $IFS characters (multiple spaces in my example) could replace linefeeds. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internal.html#ECHOREF >POSIX states that $() command substitutions that consist solely of >redirections produce unspecified results, and are thus non-portable. Thank you. The following page from the scripting guide has a link to a Bash FAQ. The FAQ apparently has a complete listing of bash features that the traditional Bourne shell lacks. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/portabilityissues.html The following page from the same guide lists command interpreters and provides a Note that links to the POSIX specifications. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sha-bang.html -Siddhartha. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/