Folks; I've got a situation where I running a script and need to wait till the output of a command is null: ex. NotNull = true While NotNull do fmsadmin status Clients #[returns a list of connected clients; I'd like to got thru this loop until either the output of the command is null or About 2-5 minutes have gone by]# done Can anyone give ANY pointers or examples on how to do this? Russell PS. I'm on the digests so PLEASE cc me directly