kai-martin knaak wrote: > Das gibt bei mir nur eine Fehlermeldung: > > $ touch was.done; echo ${was.done%.done} > bash: ${was.done%.done}: bad substitution Ja. file=was.done echo ${file%.done} -DaTa -- If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-) -- Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>