On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:07:19PM -0400, Paul wrote: > seq is just a handy command, not a part of bash. (man seq > for useful options) I don't believe seq has a man page. At least I don't have it here. On the other hand, it's so simple, it doesn't need one. The built-in help (seq --help) gives you all you need to know, apart from the fact that you need to enclose it in back-ticks, as you pointed out (or "$(" and ")"). Chuck