On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com> wrote: > good job... one question... should it be "$@" instead of $@? ie. what > if he had spaces in the filenames... you could add a Or, you could change the shell internal field seperator via: IFS=$'\t\n' This would temporarily drop space as a seperator. Then populate the list of file to work with from an ls command. -- Jamin W. Collins