On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:50:57AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > > The pattern should be in quotes, so that the shell does not expand it > > and it gets passed to your script. > > > > So it should be > > $patlist "file*" > > > > Damn the shell! Did not even think about this. Thanks Rajki. You should have read _my_ solution on sunday. There was a note about this in the comments at the top. </smug> good luck richard