On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:31 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > thanks - and why did I not try man source? > > I don't think it'd help. It's a shell builtin without a man page of > it's > own. You'd either have to do "man bash" or "help source" on fedora 12 it works - not on lenny -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves