Dear Jon, The GNU find command has a -print0 option to display file names as NUL-terminated strings. This should help. Regards, Mick /"\ \ / Linux Registered X ASCII Ribbon Campaign User #287765 / \ Against HTML Mail -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug