thanks a lot Noel, it is great utility! A simple and easy way to update the CDPATH! noel> Hi Daniel, noel> My favourite kind of question! How about a script like this? noel> ~Noel -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .