In article <40852 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cloos at acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes: >If anyone can show me a simpler way to do this (the simplest?) I'd be >very appreciative: > >uncompress `du -a . | egrep .Z | awk '{print $2}' -` > How about this: find . -name \*.Z -exec uncompress {} \; -- Ian Hogg x-4484