I have another question. "find ./*" displays recursively all files in this and its sub-directories. However for some files that were ftp'ed from a Windows system eg. something like in the one of the directories "(Doc - PDF) My Document.pdf" would cause "find *" to display "invalid predicate...." . How can I overcome this problem ? Thanks. Thanks Mike and Raju for ur earlier responses. Tony Gogoi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html