Not that it matters in this particular case, but often it is more pedantically correct to use "$@" rather than "$*".
Even then you have to use some fancy conditional variable syntax under non-Bash Bourne compatibles. Alister Waller wrote: > perfect, this has done the trick, thanks... > > >>for his 'for i in $1' to work he'd have to use import_data "$companies" >>If he were to use >>import_data $companies >>he have to use >>for i in $* >> > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
