lr is a compliment of ls. lr lists directories recursively. You will say we have an equivalence: du $target | awk '{print "ls -l",$2}'|rc Yes, using du + ls gives good recursive option to ls. However I dislike the date format of ls. That is rather for human reading. I prefer date field something like 2003/07/30 06:35:53 that is familiar to us Japanese and easy to handle by machine. Kenji Arisawa E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp