Hello. I include bug-bash even though i think bash is correct, but there lots of people of expertise are listening, so, thus. Sorry for cross-posting, nonetheless. Given this snippet (twox() without argument it is) one() { echo "$# 1<$1>"; } two() { one "$@"; } twox() { one "$@$@"; } two two x twox twox x i get $ dash shbug.sh 0 1<> 1 1<x> 1 1<> 1 1<xx> #?0|kent:tmp$ busybox.static sh shbug.sh 0 1<> 1 1<x> 1 1<> 1 1<xx> #?0|kent:tmp$ bash shbug.sh 0 1<> 1 1<x> 0 1<> 1 1<xx> (This is busybox with my arithmetic patch, built on April 20th.) Unfortunately my MUA is also bogus :( --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)