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Thanks Methyl, that does it.
Out of interest, if I have got a bash shell ...?

Regards, Mike

Does anyone know of a way to force a variable name held in another variable to return the value of the first variable? Best if I give an example, that does not work:
/usr/local/bin >cat mike.sh...

Thanks Jim, I had thought about calling script every day for a week, and the script checking the day, but that's a better way to do it.
Regards, Mike

I want to run a script on (say) the 4th friday every month. But if I include this line in the crontab :

45 9 22-28 * 5 echo '4th Friday'|mailx -s "Fri week 4" mike

it sends me mail if the...

If you want to remove the entire line containing that string, the
cp file file.backup
cat file | grep -v "http://bushby.mis.amat.com:12440" > file.new

I have 2 quick suggestions:
First, Was the cron daemon running? Do a ps -ef|grep. Of course if it is running now, maybe it wasn't running then.
Second, I've never seen that error, but I noticed the...

According to the passwd man page, passwords must be 6 chars, and only the first 8 characters are significant. So if you set your password to abc123abc123, anything starting with abc123ab will work....