Oops, typed one glob wrong. Change '.*k' to '.*k*' below. And of course, those globs MIGHT match more than you wanted, so be careful with your 'rm' command J From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Carruth, Rusty Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:16 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: Can't save... insufficient user rights Mr kitepilot didn't finish the story, which is: "By convention, files name '.something' are not shown in an 'ls' listing, nor do they match file globbing on the command line unless you explicitly include the leading period." (And I may have forgotten other places that leading periods have an effect, but I think that's it) Thus you would have matched .*lock* and .*k and .*lo* and even .~* (assuming I am reading your filename right.) Rusty