On 2014-12-03, Hal Wigoda <hal.wigoda at gmail.com> wrote: > You have to do > cat domain > in back tiks > > instead of read domain. This is an error you can't blame on your device. domain is not a file, but a bash variable. read takes stdin (which is what the OP's snippet is doing) and populates the named variable(s) (domain in this case). --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us