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Aha, double quotation and then dequoting. What a bitch...is this seriously the simplest/only ways to do it? I'd say that shell programming would be a lot simpler as a whole if this was simpler. Still, I guess I'm thinking a bit too much like a Ruby or C programmer. nikolai
Alternatively, you may be trying to fit a shell language on to a problem it isn't suited for.
What are you writing? -Eric