Jon L. Miller wrote: > for is a way to rename the old email files with the old servername to the > same filename with the new server name (ex: filename.mmtlnx). i'm probably missing the point again, but the new version of the 'rename' command is good, and takes a perl regex. e.g. # rename s/sles10/mmtlnx/ */*.sles10 Would that do it? Mike