On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:23:38AM -0700, Keith wrote: > Yes I do have that line on the top of the script. Since the script is trivial, you could write it in C. If you don't know C, call it from this trivial C program: #include <stdlib.h> main(){ system("thing.sh"); } Replace "thing.sh" with the name of your shell script, name the C file something like "thing.c" and build "thing" from it like so: cc -o thing thing.c Regards, Msquared...