You are aware of the fact that the redirect will go to the local machine you're sitting on? So if you're on a Windows box, redirecting to a path with '/' in it will fail?
If so, do you have write authority to the specified path? Have you tried redirecting to another location? Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ----------------------------------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 TÄBY Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Dierk Harbort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 2005-06-16 16:52 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject hi all ! there is a need to now all archived files from a special node, so i tried the following: select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME ...it worked fine. but now i want this output in a file (linux), so i typed select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME > /path/filename the result is ANR8038E ...unable to open file '/path/filename' for redirection i wondered, and tried select LL_NAME,count(*) from archives where NODE_NAME='cob03' group by LL_NAME > /filename the result seems to be allright, but the file 'filename' is not on the system - 'find' couldn't find it anywhere can anyone tell me, what the solution is ?? any idea is welcome thank you very much! regards, Dierk