In article <[🔎] 20000914120047.A11568@lazur.org>, Adam Lazur <adam@lazur.org> wrote: >I don't use $(( )) ever since I found $[ ] and got used to using $( ) >instead of ` ` Yes however $(( )) is Posix (posixized ksh-ism) and $[ ] is a bashism. $ ash $ echo $[2+3] $[2+3] $ echo $((2+3)) 5 Mike"ism". -- Deadlock, n.: Deceased rastaman.