Thanks, That fixed it.
For the benefit of others... I ran my test program on a couple different versions of bash (including 2.x) and It seems that this behavior (combination of quotes and * versus @) changes based on the version of bash, and not just between 2.x and 3.x. I did not do an exhaustive test because this solution will work for me. -- potter On Nov 10, 2007 12:27 PM, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > countparms ${Arguments[*]} > > Use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead (including the quotes). See node Arrays > in the Bash docs. > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." >