I'm writing a script (in ksh, not bash, but I believe the problem is the same in either shell) where I have to write some files to a number of login directories. Putting a list of targets in a variable near the top like this turns off tilde expansion: CLIENTS="~joe/foo ~blow/foo ~schmo/blah" The list of clients is potentially rather long, and I'd rather set it in an easily modifiable list near the front of the script and then later be able to do for client in $CLIENTS do stuff done rather than for client in ~joe/foo \ ~blow/foo \ ~shmo/blah do stuff done Surely this is an easy thing, but I've got a mental block. Can someone help me get my blinders off? Thanks. -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ