From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> > for old in `cat "$FILENAME"`;do > echo "$old" > dirname "$old" > new="$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/')" > done > I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in this case > filenames with asterisks but I have others like tilde's and probably > others that I haven't come across. > Anyway, $FILENAME has... > /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field.psd > /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.eps > /tmp/New Woman In Field/*NEW woman in field 2.psd > and the echoes are broken with spaces like this (which of course doesn't > work)... Not sure what you are trying to do (delete or rename or...), but try "while read" instead of for (especially since the cmdline is limited)... Example: cat "$FILENAME" | while read OLD do NEW=$(echo "$OLD" | sed 's/\*/\-/') mv -i "$OLD" "$NEW" done JD