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Arrghh. I thought I'd just about cracked this one, having discovered "sed s/' '/'\\ '/g", but it's gone and bitten me again. Let's start from the beginning... I have attached a broken hard disk which I'm trying to get files off. It has the annoying failure condition in which it has lots of seek errors and takes ages to recover if I happen to stumble across a bad block. As an aside, if anyone knows how to tell the kernel to give up and reset the drive immediately instead of waiting and trying 4-5 times that would be the best solution. Also, if anyone knows how to tell dd to write zeros or something in place of bad data and move on that would also be good (I tried conv=noerror, but it never gives up, once it finds a bad block it keeps trying to read that block forever). What I have at the moment is a list of files generated by find. Any files which find couldn't get info for due to bad blocks are omitted from the file, which should reduce the amount of drive resetting that needs to go on later as I won't even be bothering to copy files which have unreadable filesystem entries (please shout if this could mean I'm going to miss data that I could still recover). What's stopping me at the moment is I can't actually work out how to get any commands to use this list, because the names have spaces in. I get this problem pretty much every time I try to do anything with a list of files. Actually I got ls to work, but dirname won't have it. If I do it manually on the command line it's fine: # dirname /mnt/usb/Documents\ and\ Settings/test /mnt/usb/Documents and Settings but if I pass anything to it from another command it doesn't want to know: # dirname `echo /mnt/usb/Documents\ and\ Settings/test` dirname: extra operand 'and' # dirname `echo /mnt/usb/Documents\\ and\\ Settings/test` dirname: extra operand 'and' # dirname `echo /mnt/usb/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/test` dirname: extra operand 'and\\' <-- just how did we make the leap from 'and' to 'and\\' by adding only one '\'? The reason I want dirname to work is that I want to recreate the directory tree. If I just used cp on each line then all the files would end up loose on the same dir. Maybe this is the wrong way to go about it? This list has taken about 6 hours to generate, so running find again with alternative arguments isn't an option. Ideas anyone? Thanks in advance. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html