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Old 06-05-2008
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Wink Perhaps off from what you are trying to do, but...

Code:
> line1="ls *"
> echo $line1
ls 50964hdr.txt bin cbin dead.letter greetings junk.tmp masters orictl sample tmp

this seems to be what you were referring to


Code:
> echo "$line1"
ls *

this 2nd example is what I think you are trying to get