On Monday 09 September 2002 07:41 pm, George Toft wrote: > Look at the first line. It should say #!/bin/bash > If it says #!/bin/sh - make sure there is a symlink from sh -> bash > > If it is missing the #, you can get this error. > > If there are ^M at the end of the line, you will get this error. > > George Hi George The first line looks like this "#!/bin/sh" . There is no missing # at the start. There are no ^M at the end of any line. When I do a whereis sh I get the following: loran:/home/clay # whereis sh sh: /bin/sh loran:/home/clay # ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 21 11:24 /bin/sh -> bash Thanks Clayton