 on mon NUMBER sep NUMBER rick baartman wrote is there a way to do a global sort command wanting to sort like that is not common i d be surprised if exmh has a widget for it you can achieve what you want with the command line mh tools though i suggest doing the following from a shell prompt sh c for f in folders recurse fast do sortm f done the command sortm will sort a particular folder and folders recurse fast prints out a list of all of your folders thanks tom and jacob the above works but without the double quotes i e sh c for f in folders recurse fast do sortm f done i d attach this command to the sorting menu if i knew any tcl rick _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 