Just "sh-ifying" and old csh script that has been lying about and cannot for the life of me remember the equivalent of this in sh... set answer = "yes" if ("$answer" =~ y*) then dostuff endif ie: what is the equivalent of =~? ta -- Andrew Janke (a.janke at gmail.com || http://a.janke.googlepages.com/) Canberra->Australia +61 (402) 700 883