|Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but what's wrong with: If you have any aliases to directories, some files will be processed more than once. If you have any aliases to directories that are ancestors of the alias, the script will run until MacPerl runs out of memory. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch