Dennis Ruzeski wrote: > The direction I've been going in is to do something like this- > > for dir in `ls /client` > do diff -s $dir/images $dir/movies |grep ^F |xargs ls -l > done So you just need to compare between images and movies, looking for the same file name? Does same file name include same extension? Based on the directory names, I would expect different extensions, but I could be wrong. Dave