>>AllIwanando is write a working "if" statement. >> >>Sorry, if this sounds a little rantish. > >Sorry, this is a University, an Institution of Higher Learning. You >must learn something (more than you asked for) from this experience. How does that fish saying go? Give a man a shell script, feed him for a day, Teach a man shell scripting, feed him for life? That isn't fair, though, because Curt is asking for the proper reference, not the answer. Curt, if you do a ps from the command line you can see what shell you are using. However, as Wesley points out, the "who-what-how launches your script" is the key. Sam.