Regarding use of Zsh, is it not possible to add options to the SHELL definition so that even if Zsh is the selected shell, it will properly split arguments. For example, in my Zsh manual page, I see that the -y option enables SH_WORD_SPLIT so presumably SHELL = /bin/zsh -y should emulate the Bourne shell in this respect. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
