On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:31:36PM +0800, Andrew Barbara wrote: | i created a script that had the following in it: | | #!/bin/bash | /bin/nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/amavis $1 $2 $3 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 What happened to $4 ? BTW, if you ever need to refer to arguments past the ninth in a script, ${10} works (for some arbitrary integer 10). Cameron.