yeah, i'm now looking at awk / sed to do the parsing of the list. dunno if i can do this as a oneliner anymore, but i'll sure try. also, i guess that diff doesnt list the dev files i installed (for telnetd), but i already have a script to handle that, so no worries. but if anyone already knows of a created script that does this <looks at Roger>, feel free to save me from the effort.