On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:46:55AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Have you done it? I've tried single / double quotes and "\ " to no > avail... but I am setting a variable ($fn) and using -fn $fn on the > command line (in a script). maybe that's my problem? Word splitting happens after parameter expansion, so spaces in $fn will be treated as word separators. Use -fn "$fn" instead. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]