On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:59:17 -0400, Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@hotmail.com> wrote: > what about: > > /bin/ls -a >> .hidden > > That would do it. Then you open the file and remove the names that you > actually want to see. Or even ls -1 -d .* > .hidden which will only catch hidden files and directories, and list them one per line. Cheers, Tudor