On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:19:28AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: <snip> typo right here vv > now='09:07:16'; startHr=${now%%:*}; startHR=${startHr#*0}; echo $startHr; Apologies for troubling all. Mike (with egg on face) -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org