Hello Mark, Mark wrote: > Bash was developed for Linux AFAICT, but it is a whole replacement for > the Bourne shell that will run any Bourne shell script (which ksh did, > more or less, but most of the others did not). JFTR, bash is far older then linux. Bash is part of the GNU project. Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29 Christian