On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:03, Cam wrote: > Chadley > > > Ah HA!! > > I am genius! no really I am, > > Oh dear > Ha ha I broke my box, But I am back now, > That is almost certainly not what you want. Check the man page for bash > under Command Substitution. > Lets hope none of your '(test)a' files contain anything harmful when > executed. > Thanks alot I am back to a tooch, [chadley@chadlin play]$ find . -name \(test\)\* ./(test)a ./(test)b ./(test)c ./(test)d ./(test)e ./(test)f Works too :-> thanks guys I was missing the exc before the * > -Cam > -- > camilo@xxxxxxxxxxxx <-- -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people critise, curse and fail.