Thanks for the great tip, its worked great! now i'm trying to fix an end of file problem. I've programmed this file to delete all zero length files and i keep getting an end of file error #!/bin/bash if [$1 == -f] then find $2 -empty -print -exec rm -f {}\ else find $1 -empty -ok rm -f {}\ fi i've tried adding "done" "exit" and "exit 0" there is definetly something I'm missing here! Littlemissknit

Don't forget the "point-comma" (excuse-me, I'm french, don't know the real name) : ";" I think some spaces are also missing. I think this should be: if [$1 == -f] then find $2 -empty -print -exec rm -f {} \; else find $1 -empty -ok rm -f {} \; fi Regards Xavier

i entered what you said and it said that for the "if [$1 == -f]" that i'm missing a ']' but i closed the line like you did in the file. it also says i'm missing an argument to "-ok'

Try adding quotes. Ex: if [ "$1" = "-f" ] All of the Bash shell scripts I've written required the arguments to be quoted. Also in Bash, I think you can use a single equals sign for evaluation. See the following for some examples: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3 Good luck! Rob Pectol http://rob.pectol.com/