guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot files? scp doesn't do it. tx, gary -- Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org