I am finding an issue with t1800.16 failing as a result of a text compare: -fatal: cannot run bad-hooks/test-hook: ... +fatal: cannot exec 'bad-hooks/test-hook': Permission denied I don't think this is actually a failure condition but the message text is platform and shell specific. Is there any clean way around this? Thanks, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop&UNIX developer since approximately UNIX(421664400) NonStop(211288444200000000) -- In real life, I talk too much.