Bonjour Benoit, Unsurprisingly, I can also reproduce this bug with the fr_CA.UTF-8 locale. Is your fix more complicated then this? -if [ `${IPCS_CMD} -u 2>/dev/null | awk -F' ' '/segments allocated/ {print $3}'` -ne 0 ]; then +if [ `LANG=C ${IPCS_CMD} -u 2>/dev/null | awk -F' ' '/segments allocated/ {print $3}'` -ne 0 ]; then Francois -- Francois Marier identi.ca/fmarier http://fmarier.org twitter.com/fmarier