On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:14, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:31 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:11:59 +0800 (HKT), HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Pls add an 'echo "--"' to your script so that our mailers can detect your > > > sig. > > > > <pedant> > > Actually, that should be "-- ". > > > > The .sig delimiter is two dashes, a space and a newline. > > </pedant> > > > > Dave... > > > > then I need to insert a carriage return below the "-- " > what would that be? Well in Unix systems the newline character is a line feed not a carriage return. But echo (without a -n switch) will add it to the output. So just use 'echo "-- "' after stripping the single quotes. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>