On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:45:06 +1300, jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com> wrote: >So where I've said pingable=0 at the top of the file, you'd say, e.g., > pingable=$(/tmp/pingable) Correction: pingable=$(cat /tmp/pingable) -- Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')