On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: > and the stupid sucker is gagging on the "*" in the $infile - it has > nothing to do with the conditionals whatsoever > > Evidently when it assigns the line "**** START OF ..." it actually tries > to execute the first 4 files it finds in the directory - $#!% Yep, I see that too. If I remove the asterisks from my $infile it works fine. Since I am on my third glass of wine, a horrible hack is starting to sound good. ;-) Can you pass the $infile through sed first and swap the asterisks with some other character? There must be a slicker way to do this, but I'm out of creative fuel tonight. I'll try to poke at it some more tomorrow. ...Kevin --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss