Brian V Bonini wrote: >>> 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. Try shell_exec(). I don't think exec() goes via the shell. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php