James Wilkinson wrote: > Getting a glob expression to mean *everything* by . and .. is a Known > Tricky Problem. One that bash has sorted with shopt -s dotglob . Grr.... Sorry all. That should have been: > Getting a glob expression to mean *everything* BUT . and .. is a Known > Tricky Problem. One that bash has sorted with shopt -s dotglob . Must have been half-asleep... Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Users are not like normal particles; they wave when @westexe.demon.co.uk | you observe them. | -- Andrew Dalgleish