On Jun 4, 2008, at 22:01 , der Mouse wrote: > Try [[ "$STRING" =~ *"is a geek"* ]] instead. Yeah, that works, as does this: [[ "$STRING" == *"one string"*"two string"* ]] I love having a "language" with context dependent string handling... :) This is cleaner than the meta patterns anyway, thanks. -- Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com