Marc, et al -- ...and then Marc Chamberlin said... % ... % % grep run * % ... % but apparently the technical implementation misses this intent and % overloads the "run" parameter with two possible interpretations - is % it a pattern or is it a file name? Allowing this ambiguity to occur [snip] Wait, what? grep insists that the first pattern it gets is its search pattern. Even if you have a file called 'run' in the current directory, it's going to look for that string. If you don't put anything after the pattern, it's going to search stdin. HANN :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org