Am 11. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Michael Knee so: > How about > > HOME="/home" > CLIENTS="$HOME/joe/foo > $HOME/blow/foo > $HOME/schmo/blah" That doesn't work if someone ever ends up not being in /home. Grepping the users out of /etc/passwd would work, but it'd be a lot of overhead to grep it each time. Reading it into an array, then yanking them out as you go might work, but if you hit something with 45000+ accounts ( e.g. ASU ), then you'll still have a lot of overhead. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.TOLISGroup.com/ # Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger and Courage. Anger at the way # things are, and Courage to struggle to create things as they should be. # -- St. Augustine