On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:36:08PM -0500, Justin Krejci wrote: > It's expecting just 1 argument to the command but you are putting two in > there. Either run as ./harps roll > or change > if [ -z $@ ] > to > if [ -z $1 ] > > This then says check for the first argument to not exist. No, this checks the length of the first argument. If I specify "" as the first argument, this says the wrong thing. How about checking $#? -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota