Hi, Uday! Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju (sarma at bellatlantic.net) wrote 33 lines: > P.S: An 'ls' will not tell you in which order files/subfolders were > created, but du or tar does. There is ls -U or ls -f. Even though it will only list 'unsortedd / in directory order' like du or tar. -Wolfgang