Interesting, I didn't know you could do regualr expression in the shell directly. You example works partially 'cause for example it does not match h18* wich is in the range h10* .. h25* I'll try variations of your idea. Chucho! Jason Joines wrote: > > /tmp/lusers> ls h[1-2][0-5]* > h100904 h120904 h150904 h207904 h220904 h240904 >