On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:19:55PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > export EDITOR=${EDITOR-/usr/bin/emacs} Close, there's a ``:'' after the parameter name: export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/usr/bin/emacs} Useful stuff. -- Christopher DeMarco <cmd at alephant.net> Alephant Systems (http://alephant.net) PGP public key at http://pgp.alephant.net +1-412-708-9660