Ave, This Works!! <?php exec("find /Users/rjohari/Documents/XFER/espi -type f -name ".$row['PHONE']."*.vox", $files); foreach ($files as $value) { echo substr($value,35)."<br>"; } ?> THANKS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rahul Sitaram Johari CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com E: sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² On 3/29/07 4:31 PM, "Peter Lauri" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [Peter Lauri - DWS Asia] > > Hi, > > Assuming you are on a linux you could try: > > exec("find /the/path/to/the/place/where/you/should/start/searching -type f > -name 515515515*.ext", $files); > > Then the $files will be an array with the found files matching the search. > > Best regards, > Peter Lauri > > www.dwsasia.com - company web site > www.lauri.se - personal web site > www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >