anubody knows why: I get this ' ZM4s46684.strip.phylip.protdist.out\nM\n100\nY\n ' when I do ' echo "${i}.seqboot.out\nM\n100\nY\n" > ${i}.protdist ' on the cluster and I get this ZM1s59328158.strip.phylip.seqboot.out M 100 Y when I do the same commando on midas? (it's 2nd one i need) thx, L. -- ============================================================== Lieven Sterck, PhD Tel:+32 (0)9 3313821 Fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Division Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Email: lieven.sterck@psb.ugent.be Website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be -------------------------------------------------------------- Algal Genetics Group UMR 7139 CNRS-UPMC Végétaux Marins et Biomolécules (Marine Plants and Biomolecules) Station Biologique Place Georges Teissier, BP74 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France Website: http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/UMR7139/en/genetics.html ============================================================== "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" H. Simpson