Chances are, $buffer has the line break on it when you read it in from the text file. Try striping off whitespace before you write...
while (!feof ($handle)) { $buffer = rtrim ( fgets($handle, 1000) ); fwrite ($fhandle, "chown $buffer:html
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php
Thanks John! That was the problem.
Rod
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