>Are you using bash? try running it with 'bash -x <script>' >marc Or, within the script, on the second line do: set -x This is useful if the script you are trying to debug is called from another script. Also, you don't care which shell you are running. I use this to do debugging a lot. But the error you get might be extremely misleading. If you have a missing/misplaced double-quote (or any of the quotes), the error it complains about could be many lines away from the actual location. MB -- e-mail: vidiot@xxxxxxxxxx /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign [So it's true, scythe matters. Willow 5/12/03] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list