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Old 02-06-2006
I'm not a bash expert, but looking up that -f on your script, I see: (From the bash man page): "-f Disable pathname expansion." Maybe your interactive shell is not also an instance of bash which has path name expansion disabled? But you really need a bash expert here...
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Old 02-06-2006
MySQL Who's the master now?

YOU ARE!

I looked at the script 700 times and couldn't see the "-f".

I took it out, the script runs PERFECTLY!!!

Thanks for your time.
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