On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:49:54PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated > words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the > recipient and the second the message or similar? Quote them. Use double quotes if you want parameter substitution to happen inside the quotes, such as "$foo $bar". -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]