Birgit Schmid: = > = find <place where to start> -name "*O" = Hmm. My brain must be on hold. I could have sworn I had tried that. = for getting the original name: = = find <place where to start> -name "*O" -exec basename {} O \; = Great. I didn't know about basename. Thanks, steph ************ techtalk at linuxchix.org http://www.linuxchix.org