On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:34:27PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I did some quick testing to verify my suggestion this time (I was > sure the double quotes should have handled this...) and it should > work to set IFS (that's the shell's Input File Separator) at the > start of your script, then telling find to use the new separator > rather than its default newlines. Whoops! Ignore the part about changing the separator used by find... I wrote that before I figured out how to set IFS to a newline and forgot to edit it out until after I'd sent the message... *blush* -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)