Geeeeee. I like the man pages. Let's see if I understand this correctly - You don't need the '-' between all of the options? - __* is comparable to *.* and I am removing everything in the RPM directory. Then I tried to find out what 'up2date -u' does but the man pages say: [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$ man up2date -u man: invalid option -- u man, version 1.5j usage: man [-adfhktwW] [section] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list] [-m system] [-p string] name ... a : find all matching entries c : do not use cat file d : print gobs of debugging information D : as for -d, but also display the pages f : same as whatis(1) h : print this help message k : same as apropos(1) K : search for a string in all pages t : use troff to format pages for printing w : print location of man page(s) that would be displayed (if no name given: print directories that would be searched) W : as for -w, but display filenames only C file : use `file' as configuration file M path : set search path for manual pages to `path' P pager : use program `pager' to display pages S list : colon separated section list m system : search for alternate system's man pages p string : string tells which preprocessors to run e - [n]eqn(1) p - pic(1) t - tbl(1) g - grap(1) r - refer(1) v - vgrind(1) [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$ == Which is merely the commands with format and valid options. Whomever told me that I don't seem to want to learn how to use this OS the problem I was experiencing is that I didn't know how to access the man pages. Seriously, right now, on my lap, is lying a Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Exam Cram book. So please believe me when I say that I want to learn it. To bad it is for RH6.2 Are there many differences between 6.2 and 7.3? -- :-)~Mike~(-: