You can avoid the problem of a pipe within find; pipe the whole thing. E.g: ( find / -name 'junk*' -exec ls -ld {} \; ) | pr -h junk Note the spaces. This found an amazing amount of junk on 'spastic'. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!{twitch|spastic}!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ