Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote: >> > How about: > > if `fmtutil --all >> $TEMPFILE`; then rm $TEMPFILE; else echo -e \ > "\nSomething went wrong. Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE."; fi > > Don't know, how bash-specific that is. It's o.k., we're only missing an "exit 1" in the else branch. At least that's what it currently does. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie