Ok, thanks to all of your help, I have solved many of the problems I was having. I have encountered a new problem, however, that needs dealing with. Is it possible to verify the existance of files using a wildcard? For example, if [ -f "access.log${zero}${star}" ] (where zero="0" and star="*")? In this example, I want to find all files that bear the name "access.log0...". The original file, "access.log" needs to be ignored by the script, and only the files with the numeric suffix need to be tar'd and moved. I have attempted to run it with this syntax, and it appears that none of the files are detected. Is this another syntax problem? Thanks for all the help.