At 17:50:40, on 12.30.03: Cracks in my tinfoil beanie allowed Andrew Gaffney to seep these bits into my brain:, > Try changing the $2 to \$2. Perl is interpolating $2 before it gets to > bash, so bash sees "/bin/awk '{print }'". > > -- Andrew,
Ah!!! That was it. I should have seen that. Thanks so much for pointing that out. deb -- o _ _ _ _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>