Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize that find was building a call list for the first item it discovered - test. I thought it would spawn a shell and pass the string to it containing everything I wrote the way I wrote it. Bill Gradwohl (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected Email -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list