\_ SMTP quoth Mike Starke on 11/14/2002 10:00 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ /_ \_ /_FWIW, my docs say "-T File is an ASCII text file", so presumably a \_ /_control character (^M?) or something slipped in when you weren't \_ /_looking. \_ /_ \_ /_David \_ \_ I think I discovered my problem: I was trying to do a test like: \_ \_ if (! (-e -T $file1 && -e -T $file2)) { \_ blah die \_ } \_ \_ I can not run two tests on the same file. I thought I have done \_ or seen this before in a Bash script, I thought the same would \_ apply to Perl. Is this possible in Bash, or am I imagining things again? if (-e $file1 && -T $file1 ... ) The file test flags aren't 'groupable'. David