>Take a look at the arguments you are actually using:
[root~] printf "%s" ${cc[1]} bash-c"timels-l" Again, I can't see the missing " >use eval I didn't know the shell had an eval so that solves that! Much thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/parse-error-running-builtins-from-array-tp24705077p24720869.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.