Hi, I have a few (ancient) shell scripts which call perl scripts (which perform MySql queries), since a few days these have stopped working (may have been since recent coreutils update) c:/usr/local/bin/perl sdbk.pl $* (hard path to activestate perl) to get them working again I have to change perl to perl.exe c:/usr/local/bin/perl.exe sdbk.pl $* Havn't been lurking here recently but is this a known problem or brain- failure on my part? -- http://successtheory.com/tips/ Vim, Zsh, MySQL Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/