On July 13, 2003 06:05 am, David selby wrote: > I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. > > for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do > ..... > done If I expect to find files with spaces I always use some variant of this: ls /somewhere | while read file; do something "$file" done -- Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux