Those of you who do bash scripting might find this useful. You can treat the contents of a variable as a pointer to another variable. a=17 b=a echo $a prints 17 echo $b prints a echo ${!b} prints 17 _______________________________________________ CLUE-tech mailing list CLUE-tech at cluedenver.org http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech