On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:12:05 +0100 Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote: > On the other hand, the problem could be bash itself, which expands \\ in > the backticks step. Can you try with '\\n\\t\\\\'? That helped indeed. -- Robert 'koorek' Kurowski Jabber: koorek at pld-linux.org