I wrote: > fuser -v /path/to/pipe 2>&1 | grep tail | awk '{print $2}' lsof /path/to/pipe | grep tail | awk '{print $2}' giving you roughly the same of course ;) HTH x -- chris at lo-res.org Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/ special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via ctheory.net)