On Thursday 03 January 2002 10:10 am, you wrote: > I assume your trying this in bash as your shell. If you are at > all familar with tcsh you might want to use tcsh, since ~ works > as expected in tcsh. The following script worked for me. There has been an essay floating around the net about why the c shell is a bad choice for scripting. I read it a while ago, but dont remember where its posted (Im sure a quick google search will turn it up). Does anyone know if tcsh falls into the same pitfalls? Jay