Hi folks . Sorry to be a pain but i am still having a bit of fun (or not as the case may be) with scripting here thanks to previous help i have for f in *jpg ; do echo "<a class=\"highslide\" href=\"$f\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img src=\"thumbs/\"$f\"></a>" ; done > awardgallery.html which works well and generates <a class="highslide" href="img_0004.jpg" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"><img src="thumbs/"img_0004.jpg"></a> The slight problem is in this part <img src="thumbs/"img_0004.jpg"> thumbs is a sub dir off the main photos with thumbnails in it they are named img_0004_s.jpg and i can get it to pick this fact up that means i have an edit job every time . help with mods please folks Thanks pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 15 09:19:02 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux