Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote: >I'm having a problem that I just can't understand. I have a log file that >contains, among other things, the line: > >usf-tools 0.7.00 > >I have a make file with the line: > >SVER := $(shell grep "usf-tools" ./logfile |awk 'NR == 1 { print $2 }') ^^ This is untested, but that's probably your problem; $ is special in makefiles. Try $$2 and see if that works any better. -- Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]