On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:43:28PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > find . -name b
um, that's a shell (glob) pattern Contrast with grep, which /does/ take a regexp (and, unsurprisingly, ^And works just fine there). regards john -- "When a man has nothing to say, the worst thing he can do is to say it memorably." - Calvin Trillin