Put the *.deb in quotes as in find / -name "*.deb" -print
You want find to see the *. Without the quotes the shell expands *.deb to a list of debs which may or may not be empty. Th equotes prevent shell expandsion. ______________________________________________________________________________ Michael Procario EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics Carnegie Mellon University "Another casualty of applied metaphysics" ______________________________________________________________________________