Bash seems ever so slightly noisy. Noticed that scripts starting "#!/bin/bash" throw a blank line to stdio. Seems to occur whenever bash is started, is this normal? Documented? Simon, parsing script output the hardway as he hasn't learnt perl. -- Business http://www.eighth-layer.com/ Personal http://www.wretched.demon.co.uk/ -- lug-list - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo at lists.termisoc.org with "unsubscribe lug-list" in the message body to unsubscribe.