On 06Sep2006 14:36, Gregory Machin <gregory.machin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have a script writen for ash and want to convert it to bash ... | any hints on doing thins ? Since ash is meant to be a Bourne shell, change the #! line to be "#!/bin/sh". Mission accomplished. Then forget about bash - why would you need to make the script _less_ portable? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Windows crashes: =============== Cath "Do the blue screens count?" Jimbo "According to the microsoft conference, they are not crashes, they are corrections" John "This was surely a joke as, at the time, the stock market crash during the week in question was being referred to as a 'correction' and not a crash" Scott "Yes, Windows is a joke"