Can not make this work inside a php script. Have tried several variations: $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/\{$files} $tmp_dir/."; $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/" . '{' . $files . '} ' . "$tmp_dir/."; etc... I can echo out the command and get a well formed command, i.e. one that will execute from a command prompt, but when I try to exec() $cmd from within the script the globbing is taken literally. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php