Somebody in the thread at some point said: > does an 'ls' on each one. The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT > find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there. That part > works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file. It's because the error text is going out on stderr, or file handle 2. You can redirect just file handle 2 stuff (and not the normal stdout stuff) like this ls nosuchfile 2>testfile.txt -Andy
