On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > [ignacio at localhost ~]$ alias foo=bar > [ignacio at localhost ~]$ foo > bash: bar: command not found > [ignacio at localhost ~]$ "foo" > bash: foo: command not found > [ignacio at localhost ~]$ \foo > bash: foo: command not found Interesting. Here's an example of what I see on my system with cp aliased to cp -i [prata at crane ~]$ which cp alias cp='cp -i' /bin/cp [prata at crane ~]$ touch test.tst [prata at crane ~]$ "cp" -rf test.tst test.keytest Thanks for that information, I need to read the howto on bash scripting again! *blinks* Thanks! -- ethericalzen at gmail.com Life is a prison, death is a release