On Thursday, Aug 10th 2006 at 22:57 +0200, quoth eng.waleed: =>can any one learn me how I can use xargs with ln? Ah cud larn yah if I knew what you wanted to do. But! On the off chance that this might be of use... find thisdir | cpio -pdvlum thatdir might do something like what you're looking for... -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net