Man this smells like a permissions issue. It's possible to have permission to cd into a directory without having permission to ls in it. This is a freaky benefit of the *nix user/group permission bits. If'n I was you, I'd play with accessing these files from the command line, just with touch and vi, to see if there's some intermediate directory that's got permission funkiness. Make sure you do this with the user that the script runs as.

Or, another good thing to see, would be the ls -ld output on the directories you've listed up there.

This is one of those things that, as blackmateria said, should work. It's irritating that it doesn't.

Ira,

"So... What do all these little arrows mean?"
~unknown

In reply to Re: Re: Re: opening new file in different directory by IraTarball
in thread opening new file in different directory by George_Sherston

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