lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: >open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|") || die "Can't run find: $!\n"; Shouldn't that read something like $p = open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|"); $x = $!; die "Can't run find: $x\n" unless kill 0, $p; -- Harald Fuchs <fuchs at it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de at relay.cs.net> ...