note maverick IIRC, you're getting them in <strike>last modified time order. If you do a stat of each file and print the modification time, they'll appear in order.</strike> Update:Nope, that isn't right. It does have something to do with the inode and how the files are stored on disk, but I can't seem to recall what. /\/\averick OmG! They [id://153046|killed] [tilly]! You *bleep*!! 175864 175864