I need some shell scripting assistance. I want a word count of the smallest 10 files in a directory. I can get the list of the smallest 10 files: ls -1S | tail I can get the count of a list of files: wc <fn1> <fn2> ... <fn10> How can I put these two commands together to get wc to use the list of files I get back from the ls / tail command. Thanks, James H. Cutts III Computer Project Manager SOM-RES / CORI University of Missouri - Columbia -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list