> > Any advance on this though? > > > > perl -le'map/^a*.z*$/&print,aaaa..zzzz' Why bother quoting the code? perl -lemap/^a*.z*$/\&print,aaaa..zzzz is just fine unless you run it from a very oddly named directory structure or a shell with different metacharacters than bash. perl -lemap/\^a\*.z\*$/\&print,aaaa..zzzz is a bit safer, but then the quoted method is shorter. -- Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/> !G ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe