> I thought we were talking about trailing whitespace at the end of the > actual filenames, such as this... > > touch "/root/some file with trailing whitespace " > > Is that your problem, or do you have trailing whitespace in your a.lst > file, such as... > > "/etc/samba/smb.conf " Nevermind my last post, I misread what you said. I wrote another Perl script that will fix your a.lst file removing the trailing whitespace. Please make a backup of your a.lst file before running the script... #!/usr/bin/perl $file = '/root/testing/a.lst'; open(FILE, $file) or die "Can't open $file: $!\n"; @lines = <FILE>; close FILE; $new = 'b.lst'; open(NEW, ">$new") or die "Can't open $new for writing: $!\n"; foreach (@lines) { $_ =~ s/\s+$//g; print NEW "$_\n"; } close NEW; Chris Purcell, RHCE -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list