On 29Jan2007 10:18, Daniel Qarras <dqarras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Yes, I am painfully aware of the power of zsh :) Please, come to the Dark Side with us! | But in this case I | need to do my script with bash and it seems that although globbing for | directories is trivial ( */ ) there is no similar pattern to match | files. Oh, well, I guess I'll need to waste some CPU cycles and launch | find everytime I need to know file names in the current directory. Gah! No! files= for f in * do [ -f "$f" ] && files="$files $f" done ... do stuff with $files ... If you've got to deal with filenames with whitespace in them you need to be trickier. BTW, the above works in plain Bourne shell - no zsh or bash extensions needed. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Q: What's the difference between a psychotic and a neurotic? A: A psychotic doesn't believe that 2 + 2 = 4. A neurotic knows it's true, but it bothers him.