I have experimented poltergeists like that when calling scripts with system command from perl for example. In such case I have problems when I did not scape the @ symbol with a backslash. did you tried it? Maybe it's a nonsense, maybe not... Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>: > >> How do you format a command line that needs < > >> and they are not meant to redirect anything they are part of an >> email address. >> >> command -f "Some Email <someemail at somedomain.com>" -x -y -z >> >> I tried putting a backslach in front of the < and > but that didnt do >> it either. > > That's strange. Your example (with double or single quotes) should > work. It surelly works for me: > > $ echo "Some Email <someemail at somedomain.com>" > Some Email <someemail at somedomain.com> > > Have you done something strange in your shell's config file? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez Consultor de seguridad informática