On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard > a lot of disk activity. The problem is (I think) that the wildcard > matches the .. file and the process recurses back into the parent > directory, etc. '*' doesn't match .. in normal (POSIX) shells. '.*' does, though. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]