aputerguy wrote: > The data 'testfile' is a plain text file of the acl's of all the 108,000 > files on my Windoze computer. So, the "find | xargs" trick worked then did it? :-) cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple