Uups, new mail. It's better to attach the promised file :) Attached is a patch to remove a possible newline from the end of the callout returned string. So we can use "echo" instead of "echo -n" in a callout script, to match with ID= thanks, Kay 03-remove-newline-from-callout-return.diff remove possible newline at end of callout output, for easier matching with ID=