On 5/19/05, Deron Meranda <deron.meranda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Note, the *[0-9] pattern is there to match only those > filenames that end in a digit (as in your example), so it > doesn't match any other files. ... thanks. for my purposes all the files have all numerical names. they have, I believe, the same number of digits in each name and, I believe, never start with zero. It's very similar to a list domestic us phone numbers. -Thufir