John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> writes: > ls -lo ./$${file} | awk '{ print $$5 }' | grep -qw schg Using both grep and awk in the same pipeline is just silly... ls -lo ./$${file} | awk '$$5 ~ /schg/ { exit 0 } { exit 1 }' or ls -lo ./$${file} | awk '$$5 ~ /schg/ { print $$10 }' DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no