On Thursday 21 September 2006 09:46, Chris Norman wrote: > Or possibly: > script-name > address.txt > cat addr.txt | mail user > rm -f addr.txt Useless use of cat. script-name >address.txt mail user <address.txt && rm address.txt But, of course, there's no reason to create a file, if it's not going to be saved. Just pipe. -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579