Hi! --- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A POSIX shell requires that the test command supports this: > > -h file > True if file exists and is a symbolic link. > -L file > True if file exists and is a symbolic link. Thanks, I already saw those but initially they did not work for directories. That was because I had dirs=[^.]*/ that would expand, e.g: foo/ bar/ and the trailing slash caused -L test to fail. So, finally, I have what I wanted without any external commands like this: dirs=[^.]*/ for d in ${dirs} do if [[ -d ${d//\//} && ! -L ${d//\//} ]] then echo processing dir $d fi done # ... files=[^.]* for f in ${files} do if [[ -f ${f//\//} && ! -L ${f//\//} ]] then echo processing files $f fi done Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html