On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:05:20PM +0000, Ben Coffman wrote: > Conseqently in each folder if it does not find an RCS or OLD-SCCS directory > it creates these folders in which the "find" goes into and then it creates > the folders again, thus causing a never ending recursive loop. D'oh! I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. Use something like the following instead: "find /path/to/SCCS/repository -type d -not -name RCS -not -name OLD-SCCS \ -exec sccs2rcs --arguments \{} \;" -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." -- Bilbo Baggins