On 5/25/2010 7:40 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote: > Rofl! What a terrible name for a file...I guess they had too much beer > that night :P It makes sense when you realize that is how the command if [ "$x" = "fred" ]; then echo It is Fred; done works. Because if does not look for "[", it just runs the command after "if" and uses the return code.