Keith Hellman wrote: >Have you looked at 'lsof'? > Works great on my machine, but lsof does not exist on the machine at work, and I am not root. What I have so far is..... #!/usr/bin/ksh lssavelen=`echo start` lslen=`ls -l $1` while(test "$lssavelen" != "$lslen") do lslen=`ls -l $1` sleep 10 lssavelen=`ls -l $1` done echo "done" echo $lslen