On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:45:31PM -0500, Don Montalvo wrote: : : how's this for a cron job (i removed all double quotes and kept the : backslash near the end...mixed the two original examples): : : find / -name 'AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} \; You prefixed the string with a single quote, yet suffixed it with a double quote. It's gotta be one or the other. -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/