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Mike, Because your variable name (dirname) is enclosed in the quotes, ARexx won't process it as a variable reference, but will simply pass it as part of the literal string. What you'd need to do is as follows: 'dl' dirname '| execio stem D.' This way, the dirname is not within the quoted strings, and hence will be "processed" by ARexx, with it's value substituted. This is then concatenated to the preceeding string (the 'dl'), and then the remaining string is concatenated to that. (Note that this "implied" concatenation will place a single space character between the strings as it concatenates them). Hope this helps…. …BobR