[snip] I figured as much - I was think of adding an optional param so that you can optionally add such an extra limit e,g: cd /my/projects/stuff; php findqry.php --limit CHA > ./results.txt [/snip] argv[] is always available Also, sweet move with the array_reverse... $fileParts = array_reverse(explode('.', $theFile)); if("php" == $fileParts[0]){ ...it prevents problems with funky file names containing more than one period. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php