Thanks PMM that worked great!

I'm trying to improve this now, so that it doesn't greet everyone as "Mr." So I've made a variable called "title" (referring to Mr. Mrs. etc) my ONLY problem now is that i don't know how to order the command. This is what i have atm:

echo $name | awk '{print"Hello $title " $NF}'

I've tried putting the $title bit in different places, but no luck....

Thanks for all your help everyone.

Phil