John> You said "near the top." Make sure it's not on
  John> the first line of the file.

  John> Also, on line 1: #!/bin/ksh (or whereever it
  John> is) might help

Of course. It's standard procedure to put in the
shebang.

Six scripts, 638 lines of code, written, tested,
checked into CVS, installed. Job done. Time constraints
obliged me to go with the simplest solution, namely

for i in ~user1/dir \
         ~user2/dir \
do
  etc.
done

Job done. Thanks to those who responded for the
suggestions.

-- 
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ