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}' -` Thnaks. (& for those novices herein, yes, it does work. :) -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. Phone: +1 716 673-1250 cloos at acsu.buffalo.edu Snail: PersonalZipCode: 14048-0772, USA rutgers!ub!cloos