i used it interactively and for _personal_ scripts. any sysadmin stuff was written in the _bourne_ shell, in a V7 style (ie. i avoided functions unless absolutely necessary). however, there's a real killer rc script that i did use for one particularly nasty sysadmin job at: http://www.planete.net/~boyd/code/rename.html btw: this is going back nearly 10 years ('91/92/93). (Embedded image moved Richard to file: 17/07/2000 21:10 pic29322.pcx) Veuillez répondre à 9fans@cse.psu.edu Pour: 9fans@cse.psu.edu cc: (ccc: Boyd ROBERTS/EST/DOSI/BANQUE_INDOSUEZ/FR) Objet: Réf. : Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun (RC for Unix)