Hello everyone: The cat's away and the mice will play...at least I'm playing with bash scripting (just because I have the time and I would like to know...). I'm having a rough time getting off the ground, however. I am writing a very, very simple script that looks like this: #!/bin/bash echo "Hello $USER." ls This file is saved as lst.bsh. I am then executing this very simple script in Terminal with this command: bash lst.bsh Nothing happens except that the command prompt returns. I see no echo nor do I see a file listing. What fundamental step am I missing? R, John A.M. Darnell Project Leader Internal Software Development Walsworth Publishing Company John may also be reached at johnamdarnell (at) gmail dot com Question: On what television series was the lirpa first seen, and who used it? P.S. Interestingly enough, I went to two separate sources on writing Unix scripts. Both began immediately discussing how to write scripts, but neither spent even a sentence on actually running a script, at least not in the first chapter.