Am 25. Aug, 2000 schwäzte sinck@ugive.com so: > > \_ For now I'm using perl on the file after it was created. Already had to do > \_ that for something else, so it's not a great sin, just something else to > \_ try to move back to shell later on :). > > You make it sound so hard: > > lartmebofh% perl foo.pl > <...> > lartmebofh% cat > foo.sh > #!/bin/sh > > perl foo.pl > ^D > lartmebofh% chmod +x foo.sh > lartmebofh% foo.sh > <...> > lartmebofh% > > simple as pie. Not for the newbie trying to understand what's going on, which is the point of the exercise :). ciao, der.hans -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com # Knowledge is useless unless it's shared. - der.hans