Lots of confusion! So I tried this, $ for x in cat dog rabbit rat; do echo -n "$x "; if whatis $x > /dev/null; then echo found; else echo not found; fi ; done; cat found dog not found rabbit not found rat not found -- Shiplu Mokaddim My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu SUST Programmers, http://groups.google.com/group/p2psust Innovation distinguishes bet ... ... (ask Steve Jobs the rest) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php