> This I don't understand: so what does the "." stand for? "." is the current directory. >From the man page of "ln" SYNOPSIS ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME] --> ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY ln [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY TARGET... [...] When using the second form with more than one TARGET, the last argument must be a directory; create links in DIRECTORY to each TARGET. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com