On Sunday 08 May 2005 04:52 pm, s. keeling wrote: > > You're passing it "/bin/ls -l" instead of "/bin/ls". "-l" works in the > function to pick up files only, but fails in chmod (you can't "chmod 600 > -rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 5973 Oct 7 2004 .emacs". You > have to "chmod 600 .emacs". Back to the drawing board then. thanks 8)