On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:07:17AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > LIST1=`ls $HOME/devel/bash/[A-Z]*.tmp` > LIST2=`ls $HOME/devel/bash/[a-z]*.tmp` > Ganz nebenbei, useless use of backticks: LIST1=$HOME/devel/bash/[A-Z]*.tmp LIST2=$HOME/devel/bash/[a-z]*.tmp /GM