Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l > 7927 I am not sure it is the best way, because if you have root in the name of the file, or even a directory called something like root, it would return positive. better use: find ~/ -user root --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting