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Success at last! Unfortunately i had made another silly mistake, remember how i had plain brackets when i first typed the code in and i then changed them to curly brackets? Well i changes both pairs...

Yes the share mounts perfectly with that command with the ip address in it and the text file does contain the correct ip address but when i tried your code i got the errors listed in my last post....

I did have a space at the end there but after removing it there is no change, i will paste the exact line here for you to check for any other mistakes.

sudo mount -t cifs //$(cat...

Thanks for the quick replies, anbu23, that just dumped the mount help file on the screen the way it does when it doesn't understand the syntax so there is not much i can tell you about why it doesn't...

I have an IP address in a text file and i want to use it to mount a network share.
The command i will use is
mount -t cifs //ipaddress/share /mnt/share -o username =hiro

I just need to know...