Hi Steve. If you have the bash-docs package installed, then you can type: info bash It is an extreemly well done info page, nicely devided into various sections, including a variables section. The special $ variables are all covered there. It also contains a lot of other stuff you might be interested in. (grin) The bash-docs is a debian package. I don't know how other distros handle the bash documentation. Oh, by the way, if you have the groff package installed, you can force the man command to display the manpages in your favorite browser. Simply type: man -H bash for example. Looking at a large man page like bash in a browser is much nicer, since you can very easily skip around in the document, and find specific information by using the search capability of your browser. To make a long story short, it rocks! Take care. Hope Patty and the rest of the family are doing well. Gene
