Thanks for the reply tytalus.

I guess this would not work for me as my script contains 10 logics in it. So I took another route and using cron and ls and moving the files around once the job is over I got it to do the job. But it would have been nice and easier if I could just figure out a way to do this as I wanted. Still I will continue to read thru and see if I can do it the way I wanted to do it.

Thanks again.