Hi I've got this little script and to run the commands I copy the commands into my paste buffer by selecting the lines. The script was opened in vi. The script contains some parts that require manual intervention so for example I would have: cd /opt mkdir java scp -rp server:/opt/java/java* java/ cd java ls If I paste the above to a shell it will run all the way up until the "scp" command. After completing the scp command the shell returms me to a prompt. The rest of the script isn't run. Can someone please explain why this is happening? Thanks in advance Dan
