On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Eugene Lee wrote: > However, if your stuff isn't UTF-8, it probably won't work. Switching the hide script file back and forth between MacRoman and UnicodeTM (UTF-8) in BBEdit turns it on and off in the Terminal. Just to experiment I tried editing the first line from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash, but it doesn't make any difference. Michael -- "There is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." - Benjamin Franklin, address to the Constitutional Convention, 1787