On 3/26/04 8:10 PM, "Michael Grant" <soft at bdanube.com> wrote: > Aha! My file was in UTF8 encoding, which I have set as the default in > BBEdit. It worked when I changed it to MacRoman. Kind of a drag, > actually--I thought the shell was more Unicode-savvy. I thought bash was? In fact, that was what I heard was one of the main reasons why Apple switched from tcsh. Or are you using tcsh maybe? Kirk My latest book: How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther http://www.mcelhearn.com/htde.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kirk at mcelhearn.com | http://www.mcelhearn.com . . . . . . . . Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France . .