Hi Clay, Did you try rebooting? Try reinstalling bash? Reformatting and reinstalling the OS? Sorry - I couldn't resist the Windows answers. I'm stumped on this one. I was hoping to see some weird character in there. George Clayton Stapleton wrote: > > Thanks Geoerge, the hexdump is identical to the one you supplied, > as you can see from the following: > hexdump -xc for > 0000000 2123 622f 6e69 622f 7361 0a68 6f66 2072 > 0000000 # ! / b i n / b a s h \n f o r > 0000010 2069 6e69 6020 6573 2071 2031 3031 3b60 > 0000010 i i n ` s e q 1 1 0 ` ; > 0000020 640a 0a6f 2020 2020 2020 2020 6365 6f68 > 0000020 \n d o \n e c h o > 0000030 2420 0a69 6f64 656e 000a > 0000030 $ i \n d o n e \n > > Clay Stapleton > > On Saturday 25 May 2002 07:45 am, George Toft wrote: > > Run hexdump on the script and post the results. The hexdump should look > > *exactly* like this: > > $ hexdump -xc test > > 0000000 2123 622f 6e69 622f 7361 0a68 6f66 2072 > > 0000000 # ! / b i n / b a s h \n f o r > > 0000010 2069 6e69 6020 6573 2071 2031 3031 3b60 > > 0000010 i i n ` s e q 1 1 0 ` ; > > 0000020 640a 0a6f 2020 2020 2020 2020 6365 6f68 > > 0000020 \n d o \n e c h o > > 0000030 2420 0a69 6f64 656e 000a > > 0000030 $ i \n d o n e \n > > 0000039 > > > > > > Or e-mail me the script. > > > > George > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss