>What's wrong with /bin/date !? The default output format is too verbose. Real men use "date +%s" :-) (on GNUish systems, anyway -- I had to write a noddy program to get at this info for some scripts I was writing on Solaris, because the standard Solaris date won't give it to you). Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug