On 19Dec2007 12:17, James Pifer <[email protected]> wrote: | Thanks to all that replied. My final solution is if/then/else's. Not as | efficient as a case but does the job, It's MUCH slower. Overuse of grep is one of the contributing factors to the RedHat boot scripts' slowness. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Clarity in Communications: As of yesterday, the probe was spinning out of control at 80 rpm. This is bad. - [email protected]