On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > or: var=$(ps aux | wc -l) Cool! Thirteen years with UNIX, and I'm still learning new tricks. Is this a bashism, or does it work with sh proper? (I don't have my bsd laptop handy to check). -- Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws> http://www.lesher.ws