On Monday 08 March 2004 13:07, ron wrote: > l=${l:4:${#l}-7} ??????????? It's a bashism. ${#l} is the length of variable l, ${l:start:length} is like Gambas' Mid$ function. It's saying, basically, take gb.somename.la and return just somename. I'd like to say I came up with it, but I got it from someone else's build script ;) Rob