On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jay Levitt wrote: > Nope, that doesn't work... that seems to swallow the -U argument that > follows. I'm not even sure how to test what the output of all this quoting > is, since I'm sure echo has its own quoting intricacies.. Don't use echo. Just use: daemon $PROGDIR/$prog -x '""' -P ... etc ... -- David.