Greetings I am about to start a script for installing a couple of updates and I got this far : #!/bin/sh echo "Starting install process ;-)" pwd Now the very first thing i need, is a thing I can't do ha ha! The script will run from a folder probably called "updates" What I have never worked out was how to make the current working dir a variable for this. As this folder could be copied anywhere in the file system! so the script will have to work regardless of what the absolute path is. Endusers can be stupid you know and make 10 copies of the folder before getting the updates folder into the correct one. I figured I would need to put in a pwd command. but how do you make the script recognise the pwd output as a variable? Is there a simple example I cam work from? TIA -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================