On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 03:42 +0300, Dmitry Yakovkin wrote: > cat $NEWSPAGE | sed -f $FILTER| mail deemon@gmail.com $MAIL_OPTS -s "$SUBJECT" Variable expansion occurs after quote removal, iirc. Hence, to introduce another round of quote removal, try prepending an eval: cat $NEWSPAGE | sed -f $FILTER | eval mail deemon@gmail.com $MAIL_OPTS -s "$SUBJECT" Regards, Bruno.