On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:35:11PM -0800, Tim locke wrote: > not access denied errors. I need to copy a > subdirectory > located in a public directory to my home directory...I > can copy the files one by one but I'd rather copy the > whole subdirectory itself to my home directory... Have you tried 'cp -a directory1 directory2' ? Take a look at the cp man page. -- Ron Golan rgolan@coalabs.com GPG key http://people.we.mediaone.net/rgolan/gpg.asc