On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:26:16PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > It should be: > ... > /dev/null 2>&1 > The the greater-than symbol preceeds the ampersand . Thank you, that makes much more sense now. -- Max Clark <maxc at beast.clarksys.com> <a href="http://www.clarksys.com">Max Clark</a>