That was it - many thanks. Paul N. > This is a bug in the FWTools linux distribution with how arguments > are escaped by the "cover scripts". You can edit FWTools/bin_safe/ogr2ogr > and change the last line to read: > > $FWTOOLS_HOME/bin/`basename $TARGET` "$@" > > This will be fixed in the next FWTools for Linux release. > > Best regards,