On Monday, 01 November 2004, at 17:53:39 (-0500), seth vidal wrote: > out of curiosity why do you not want to recurse? Long story short, it's a portion of a build tree that has some packages underneath in a build hierarchy that shouldn't end up installable. Think historical data, if you will. > and can't you just use -x DIR_I_DONT_WANT/*? Tried that. No dice. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "The breakup was mutual, but it was more mutual on my part." -- Beth O'Hara