G,

Thanks for your answer. It gets part of the job done, but unfortunately not all of it. An example input file to my script might be...

echo Started
aVar="Worked"
echo $aVar
echo Stopped
...

I am trying to dynamically create some shell script and run it (but don't know how!).

I want to read in a string from a file (e.g. 'echo $myvar') then run that string (and, yes, myvar IS an...