Ah ..now I get it. So it's only useful if aespipe is in a pipe, as you descibe, and there's no "quiet" option or equivalent for the prior command. (I suppose you might achieve the same thing by redirecting a file descriptor in some cases, too). While I hesistate to suggest anything at this stage of my linux development, perhaps something about this could be considered for future inclusion in Jari's README? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/