On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:37 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > When I cut and paste the above script into 'od -c', I see that the > '-' characters are not simple ASCII characters but a 3-byte sequence > "\342\210\222" in octal. That explains what you are seeing. How > on Earth they got that way is another question altogether. Actually, what I did, was copy the script from Evince and into vi, so that's how the - characters got all wacky. The solution was, to just type it out. Thanks for your help, -Gezim