On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:00:47AM -0700, Guy Maor wrote: > cdulrich@ucdavis.edu (Chris Ulrich) writes: > > echo $[3+5] > > This is the old, unsupported, way of doing an arithmetic expressions. > This should be changed to `$((3+5))'. File a bug. > > > Guy If you want to use sh instead of bash, then try: echo `expr 3 + 5` -- Lee Bradshaw lee@sectionIV.com (preferred) Alantro Communications lee@alantro.com