I am having trouble with the xargs command and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I have a file chtst.sh with one command in it: echo $1 to try and resolve the problem I have also done the following: chmod 777 chtst.sh I then type in: find /SYS/PUB/A* | xargs -n1 -i echo {} and I get a list of files in /SYS/PUB that begin with A next I tried: find /SYS/PUB/A* | xargs -n1 -i chtst.sh {} and I get the following error message: xargs: chtst.sh: not executable: Error 0 What am I doing wrong? My permissions show as -rwxrwxrwx on that file, but I assume that there is something wrong with my permissions. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for the help. David