Hi Bob, Here is the result of that command; $ ls -ld csf drw------- 2 toil toil 4096 2013-02-05 19:26 csf The result of running it with the trailing / aswell; $ ls -ld csf/ drw------- 2 toil toil 4096 2013-02-05 19:26 csf/ So it seems that you may be correct. That chmod fixes the problem, But it is still a bug that it does not exit if it does have permissions, and has color on. Thanks *Joshua Rogers* - Retro Game Collector && IT Security Specialist gpg pubkey On 06/02/13 19:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > ls -ld csf