Dave, et al -- ...and then Dave Howorth said... % % Why is everybody suggesting variations on scripts and other commands, % when the command that Simon used will do the job he requires and even % has an exact example of how to do it on its man page? Maybe because some of us are unfamiliar with handy little utilities like this only useful for one-off jobs and prefer to rely on the bare minimum installation of *NIX tools (sh, sed, mv). Yeah, I vaguely recall tripping across one of these rename utilities a few decades ago but also recall not bothering to hunt it down in subsequent installs over the years because, well, it's unnecessary. YMMV, of course, which is why it exists (and in so many forms 'cuz TMTOWTDI), but that's why I didn't go hunting for grammar for some util for him ... HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt