Actually, his code does create an executable, which does not contain a list of files. Look closely at the command line, and you'll see that it takes the string "grep $1 ..." and writes that string to /usr/local/bin/ww. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Heaton Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:17 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Newby Question FC4 > and create a shell script that does the grep > > echo "grep $1 /usr/local/where/was.txt" > /usr/local/bin/ww This takes the list of files and directories from above and searches for the first command line argument ($1) in that list and stores what it finds in /usr/local/bin/ww
