Philipp Vlassakakis wrote: > >./dev works for me > ># cat ignore.mtree >./dev > >then mtree -p / -c -X ignore.mtree > mtree.test Thanks, Philipp, it looks like a directory should start with a "./" and have no trailing slash to be ignored. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/