Hi, I am facing a problem which is Driving me Nuts. Here we are given Patches/Hotfixes which are Developed by Developers on Windows, which we Load on Solaris using SecureFTP or some other Tool. The Nomenclature that they follow is Like this:- "DD-MON-YYYY v AA.BB" where AA=Version and BB=Patch Number. As you might have noticed, On Either Side of "v" there is a space. So the directories are something like this:- [root@bsnlom01 patches]# ls -1|sort -t\. -n -k2,2|grep -v BACKUP|head -10|tail -9 09-Mar-2009 v 0.1 10-Mar-2009 v 0.2 16-Mar-2009 v 0.3 19-Mar-2009 v 0.4 26-Mar-2009 v 0.5 27-Mar-2009 v 0.6 30-Mar-2009 v 0.7 31-Mar-2009 v 0.8 01-Apr-2009 v 0.9 Note all these are Directories. There are 153 Such Directories and Still Counting. I want to MOVE all these Old Directories to an Archive Directory, but unable to do so because of Space In Directory Name. I tried following:- ---------------------------------------------------------- ls -1|sort -t\. -n -k2,2|grep -v BACKUP|while read line do mv -i $line WOM_Hotfixes; done -------------------------------------------------------- But its failing as it is trying to read all three sections as separate directories. Please help me out with this Issue. Thanks In Advance, Regards, Sujan

Hi Friends, I got the solution, but thought will Post here for others. Simply Quote the String with Double Inverted Commas(""). As simple as that. :-) So script would be:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ls -1|sort -t\. -n -k2,2|grep -v BACKUP|grep -v WOM|while read line do mv -i "$line" WOM_Hotfixes done ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And Bingo, all those files are moved to Archive Dir "WOM_Hotfixes". Cheers :-) Sujan