On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:08:25AM +0100, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote: > Uh, ah, I don't exactly understand how Brian's solution works (it is a > solution, Brian, right?), and I hesitate to run any command that I don't > understand "just to find out". (c: > > (It's this "echo" that confuses me ... I would have expected something like > "exec" or ` `? And then there are no ' ' or " " afterwards for what is > handed to "echo"?) Well, as others have pointed out it is not exactly a 100% solution. More of a demoanstration. I should have pointed that out. Been using Unix so long, that I'm getting as terse as it is...:) Have the other's explanations helped? -- ~`^`'~=-._.-=~'`^`'~=-._.-=~'^'~=-., \|/ (___) \|/ _,.-=~'`^` @~./'O o`\.~@ "Knowledge is Power" /__( \___/ )__\ *PPPFFBT!* -- Francis Bacon `\__`U_/' _.-=~'``'~=-._.-=~'``'~=-._.-=~'`^`'~= <____|' ^^`'~=-.,__,.-= ~'^`'~=-._.-=~'`^`'~=-._.-=~'^'~=-.,__,.-==--^'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`