[snip] >Can you help suggest experiments? Maybe this shows the problem is bash,
$ cat ~/.bashrc echo Hello bashrc $ /bin/bash -c /bin/pwd Hello bashrc /home/davidt/tmp $ /bin/sh -c /bin/pwd /home/davidt/tmp Why does bash think it's running interactively when the -c option is present? I need to study the bash man pages and pursue as a bash problem ... Paul, thanks for your help! -- David Thompson Foster City, CA _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make