> I went back and > reread the thread-starting post, and I see no indication of the OS in > question except by implication in the presence of find and ls. Solaris 10. # uname -a SunOS co-ap-103v 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 # It makes a difference of course. Sorry for any confusion. brian