Hi, David Wright wrote: > My solution will be to rename or delete the file, > after adding code to detect any future occurrences. Or you could avoid to show md5sum a file name. path=...as.weird.as.is... md5sum <"$path" will yield something like b8ce6ed30aa67e94ad9276c9ac2bbc50 - If you need a file name in the result line, then you can change the "-" to the file name in a form which you like. Have a nice day :) Thomas