>>The correct solution is to get perl fixed; there's no reason I can see >>why it should have to use csh for globbing, rather than do the job >>itself. > >right. isn't there a libglob.a as part of the bash sources? why >don't use this? ...or indeed, readdir() and fnmatch(), which can be found in libc. -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ richard@elmail.co.uk Eat a live toad before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day.