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You could do something like this. . . if [[ $file == */]]; then echo whatever fi Then again, this will only check for a string ending with a '/'. What if the user enters '/etc' or '/usr/bin' for example? I'm sure you can figure out how to modify the example to check for these as well. BTW, you should check out the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide hxxp: tldp. org/LDP/abs/html/ it also has a section on Regular Expressions. kdb